Doctoring the mind : why psychiatric treatments fail /: why psychiatric treatments fail. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard P. Bentall.
• Other Names: Bentall, Richard P
• Contents: I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success? -- The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline -- Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era -- Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry -- II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful -- The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases -- Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases -- III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials -- Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics -- The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness? -- What kind of psychiatry do you want?
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 363 pages), illustrations, portraits
• Subjects: 616.891; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- Evaluation; Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- Evaluation; Mental health services -- Great Britain -- Evaluation; Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Great Britain; Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States; Mental health services -- Great Britain; Mental health services -- United States; Mental health services; Mental health services -- Evaluation; Mental illness -- Treatment; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Evaluation; Great Britain; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141917832; 0141917830
• Related ISBNs: 9780141023694; 0141023694
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.