Psychiatry : a very short introduction / Tom Burns.
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TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 152Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006Description: xiv, 146 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780192807274 (pbk.)
- 0192807277 (pbk.)
- 616.89 BUR 23 009267
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"First published as a Very Short Introduction 2006"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. What is Psychiatry? ; 2. Asylums and the origins of psychiatry ; 3. Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy ; 4. The move into the community ; 5. Psychiatry under attack - inside and out ; 6. Open to abuse ; 7. Into the 21st Century ; Further reading
Explaining what psychiatry is and what it does, this work looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.
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