Doctoring the Mind : : Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good? / / Richard P. Bentall.
Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the "Prozac Age" and believed we had moved far beyond the ti...
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Rational Antipsychiatry
- PART ONE. AN ILLUSION OF PROGRESS
- 1. A Smashing Success?
- 2. The Appliance of Science: The Emergence of Psychiatry as a Medical Discipline
- 3. Therapeutic Innovation at the End of the Asylum Era
- 4. Dissent and Resolution: The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry
- PART TWO. THREE MYTHS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS
- 5. People or Plants? The Myth that Psychiatric Diagnoses are Meaningful
- 6. The Fundamental Error of Psychiatry: The Myth that Psychiatric Disorders are Genetic Diseases
- 7. Brains, Minds and Psychosis: The Myth that Mental Illnesses are Brain Diseases
- PART THREE. MEDICINE FOR MADNESS
- 8. Science, Profit and Politics in the Conduct of Clinical Trials
- 9. Less is Probably Better: The Benefits and Costs of Antipsychotics
- 10. The Virtue of Kindness: Is Psychotherapy Effective for Severe Mental Illness?
- 11. What Kind of Psychiatry Do You Want?
- Notes
- Index