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This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour and that psychiatrists are agents of the capitalist society seeking to repress such behaviour. It establishes, by the use of evidence from historical and transcultural studies, that mental illness has been recognized 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. Finally, it tackles two issues where psychiatry has been seen as at odds with the values prevailing in society: involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence. The Reality of Mental Illness does not pretend to offer simple answers to the complex problems it discusses, but will leave the reader with a much greater understanding of psychiatry's aims, practices and problems.
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This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour and that psychiatrists are agents of the capitalist society seeking to repress such behaviour. It establishes, by the use of evidence from historical and transcultural studies, that mental illness has been recognized 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. Finally, it tackles two issues where psychiatry has been seen as at odds with the values prevailing in society: involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence. The Reality of Mental Illness does not pretend to offer simple answers to the complex problems it discusses, but will leave the reader with a much greater understanding of psychiatry's aims, practices and problems.
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The Reality of Mental Illness book by Martin Roth, Jerome Kroll
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Cambridge University Press, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0521321514
ISBN 13 : 9780521321518
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> It would be advantageous if one could offer the reader an uncomplicated description of psychiatry. This would encompass a description of its subject matter (mental illness), methods and goals (diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention). The ideal of such a presentation, however, appears unrealistic for two main reasons. First, the descriptions and causes of aberrations of human behaviour, which constitute the subject matter of psychiatry, are themselves extremely complicated and therefore require cautious hypotheses and statements rather than pretentious assertions. Second, many of the working hypotheses, methods, and goals of psychiatry are presently under attack, and these criticisms require an answer. The charges against psychiatry include the following: that mental illnesses are merely socially deviant behaviours rather than real illnesses; that medicine has traditionally been disinterested in mental illnesses until about two hundred years ago when it became apparent that profit was to be had in taking char. N° de réf. du vendeur Batch-FM667-VG-13683
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