Psychiatry
A Very Short Introduction
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9780198826200
Publication date:
15/10/2018
Paperback
160 pages
174x111mm
Price: 350.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198826200
Publication date:
15/10/2018
Paperback
160 pages
Second Edition Edition
Tom Burns
Considers the nature of psychiatry today, and the future opportunities which are being opened up with the use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality,Offers a historical overview of psychiatry's development, including the asylum movement and the discovery of the unconscious,Provides a thorough examination of psychiatry's past (and present) failures and mistakes,Explores the conceptual and philosophical controversies around psychiatry's legitimacy,Distinguishes psychiatry's differences (and overlaps) with psychology and psychotherapy,Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over nine million copies sold worldwide
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Second Edition Edition
Tom Burns
Description
Psychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavour, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the medicalization of everyday life, and the role of nature versus nurture which cause constant discussion today, and on which almost everyone has an opinion.
In this Very Short Introduction Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and discussing why its history has been beset by dramatic shifts in emphasis and types of treatment. Considering the main disorders that have shaped its practice (such as schizophrenia and manic depression), he analyses how it differs from
(and overlaps with) psychology and psychotherapy. Many of the controversies arise from its dual origin 200 years ago and the separate development of psychiatry with a more 'medical' approach in the asylums, rather than the psychological approach which birthed psychoanalysis and various forms of psychotherapy. Discussing philosophical issues of psychiatry's legitimacy, Burns explores the mistakes psychiatry has made and the blind alleys in its history, before looking forward to the likely changes in its practice with the coming of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains
hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
About the author
Tom Burns, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry, Oxford. Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, UCL.Tom Burns trained as a psychiatrist in Scotland and London before working as a general adult consultant in Sweden and London. He became a Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1993, before becoming a Professor of Social Psychiatry at the University of Oxford in 2003. His publications include Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry (Penguin, 2014) and Outreach in Community Mental Health Care (OUP, 2017). In 2006, Tom was awarded a CBE for services to mental health.
Second Edition Edition
Tom Burns
Table of contents
1:What is psychiatry?
2:Asylums and the origins of psychiatry
3:The move into the community
4:Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
5:Psychiatry under attack
6:Open to abuse
7:Into the 21st century
Further reading
Index
Second Edition Edition
Tom Burns
Description
Psychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavour, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the medicalization of everyday life, and the role of nature versus nurture which cause constant discussion today, and on which almost everyone has an opinion.
In this Very Short Introduction Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and discussing why its history has been beset by dramatic shifts in emphasis and types of treatment. Considering the main disorders that have shaped its practice (such as schizophrenia and manic depression), he analyses how it differs from
(and overlaps with) psychology and psychotherapy. Many of the controversies arise from its dual origin 200 years ago and the separate development of psychiatry with a more 'medical' approach in the asylums, rather than the psychological approach which birthed psychoanalysis and various forms of psychotherapy. Discussing philosophical issues of psychiatry's legitimacy, Burns explores the mistakes psychiatry has made and the blind alleys in its history, before looking forward to the likely changes in its practice with the coming of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains
hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
About the author
Tom Burns, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry, Oxford. Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, UCL.Tom Burns trained as a psychiatrist in Scotland and London before working as a general adult consultant in Sweden and London. He became a Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1993, before becoming a Professor of Social Psychiatry at the University of Oxford in 2003. His publications include Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry (Penguin, 2014) and Outreach in Community Mental Health Care (OUP, 2017). In 2006, Tom was awarded a CBE for services to mental health.
Table of contents
1:What is psychiatry?
2:Asylums and the origins of psychiatry
3:The move into the community
4:Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
5:Psychiatry under attack
6:Open to abuse
7:Into the 21st century
Further reading
Index
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Brief Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth
V. Robin Weersing, Araceli Gonzalez, Michelle Rozenman
Jonathan Rottenberg
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Robyn Thom, Christopher McDougle
Scott Tannenbaum, Eduardo Salas
Sophia Moskalenko, Clark McCauley
