The Reality of Mental Illness

Klappentext This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour. Zusammenfassung This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour. It establishes that mental illness has been recognised in all cultures since the beginning of history and goes on to explore the philosophical and medical basis for psychiatry's diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Mental illness, psychiatry and its critics; 2. Disorders of the mind and the role of medicine in historical perspective; 3. The evidence from transcultural enquiries; 4. A consideration of the mind-body problem and its bearing on the concept of disease; 5. Medical and alternative models of mental disease; 6. Social, ethical and philosophical aspects of involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence; Notes.

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• Authors: J. Kroll, Jerome Kroll, J. D. Roth, Martin Roth
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521337618
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33761-8
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works