Medicine over Mind : : Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era / / Dena T. Smith.
We live in an era in which medicalization—the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatment—of mental health troubles has been settled for several decades. Yet little is known about how this biomedical framework affects pra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) :; 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Under the Influence of the Biomedical Model
- Chapter 1. From Meaning Making to Medicalization
- Chapter 2. Practitioner Portraits and Pathways to Practice
- Chapter 3. The Promise of “Imperfect Communication” and the “Prison” of Rigid Categorization: The DSM in Practice
- Chapter 4. Etiological Considerations and the Tools of the Trade: The Role of Medication and Talk Therapy in Practice
- Chapter 5. The Consequences of the Biomedical Model for Practice and Practitioners: Psychodynamic Therapy in a Biomedical World
- Conclusion: The Dangling Conversation—Ambiguity in Mental Health Practice
- Appendix: Notes on the Method and Sam
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author