Dena T Smith

Medicine Over Mind

Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813598673
• ISBN-10: 0813598672
• Artikelnr.: 56285350

Autorenporträt

DENA T. SMITH is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of Maryland-Baltimore County where she teaches the sociology of mental health and illness, and medical sociology.  

Inhaltsangabe

From meaning-making to medicalization
Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice
The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid
categorization : the DSM in practice
Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of
medication and talk therapy in practice
The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners :
psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world
Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health
practice