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Reality of Mental Illness by Jerome Kroll and Martin Roth (1986, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521337615
ISBN-139780521337618
eBay Product ID (ePID)4465628
Product Key Features
Number of Pages140 Pages
Publication NameReality of Mental Illness
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
SubjectPathology, Psychopathology / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPsychology, Medical
AuthorJerome Kroll, Martin Roth
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN85-029935
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.89
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Mental illness, psychiatry and its critics; 2. Disorders of the mind and the role of medicine in historical perspective; 3. The evidence from transcultural enquiries; 4. A consideration of the mind-body problem and its bearing on the concept of disease; 5. Medical and alternative models of mental disease; 6. Social, ethical and philosophical aspects of involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence; Notes.
SynopsisThis book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour and that psychiatrists are agents of the capitalist society seeking to repress such behaviour. It establishes, by the use of evidence from historical and transcultural studies, that mental illness has been recognized in all cultures since the beginning of history and goes on to explore the philosophical and medical basis for psychiatry's diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Finally, it tackles two issues where psychiatry has been seen as at odds with the values prevailing in society: involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence. The Reality of Mental Illness does not pretend to offer simple answers to the complex problems it discusses, but will leave the reader with a much greater understanding of psychiatry's aims, practices and problems., This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour., This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour. It establishes that mental illness has been recognised in all cultures since the beginning of history and goes on to explore the philosophical and medical basis for psychiatry's diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
LC Classification NumberRC454
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