Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good? - Couverture rigide

Bentall, Richard P

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ISBN 10 : 0814791484 ISBN 13 : 9780814791486

Editeur : New York University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Bentall Richard P

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Towards 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 on definitively from the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organisation that suggests people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, Doctoring the Mind asks the question: how good are our mental health services, really? Richard Bentall picks apart the science that underlies current psychiatric practice across the US and UK. Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this is a book set to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century.

Revue de presse :

Bentall is one of psychiatry's most eloquent enemies . . . the drugs don't work (Sunday Times )

It is the very balance of his approach that drives his opponents crazy . . . Passionate . . . a brave book (Observer )

Bentall pulls no punches . . . his credentials ensure that his punches carry weight (Guardian )

Paints a stark picture of a mental health system riddled with corruption and incompetence (The Times )

Wonderful. Everyone personally or professionally concerned with mental health should read this . . . I dearly wish it could be put into the hands of the politicians and their advisors who make decisions about the life and rights of others (Hilary Mantel )

At a time when dialogue in the presence of other human beings is becoming less and less available, this brave book gives a sense of why this could be disastrous (Salley Vickers, Observer )

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0814791484
• ISBN 13: 9780814791486
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 388