Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry
Oxford University Press (2008)
| Abstract | Neuroscience and psychiatry -- Psychotherapy and psychiatry -- Diagnosis in psychiatry -- The boundaries of mental disorders -- Mood and mental illness -- Psychiatry's problem children -- Evidence-based psychiatry -- Psychiatric drugs: miracles and limitations -- Talk therapies: the need for a unified method -- Psychiatry in practice -- Training psychiatrists -- Psychiatry and society -- The future of psychiatry. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Psychiatry Philosophy Psychotherapy Methodology Psychiatry methods Mental Disorders | |||||||||
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| Call number | RC437.5.P37 2008 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780195313833 0195313836 | |||||||||
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