Doctoring the Mind by Richard P Bentall
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.
'[Praise for Madness Explained] A substantial, yet highly accessible workFull of insight and humanity.' The Sunday Times '[Praise for Madness Explained] Will give readers a glimpse both of answers to their own problems, and to questions about how the mind works' The Independent
Richard Bentall has held chairs in clinical psychology at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester, and is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bangor in Wales. Known internationally for his research into the causes and treatment of severe mental illness, his previous book, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature won the British Psychological Society Book Award for 2004.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713998894 |
| ISBN 10 | 071399889X |
| Title | Doctoring the Mind |
| Author | Richard P Bentall |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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