Tom Burns (Oxford. Honorar Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry

Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry today, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and considering the main disorders it covers. Discussing the philosophical issues of psychiatry, he reveals psychiatry's past mistakes, before looking forward to the likely changes in its future practice with artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 110mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 142g
• ISBN-13: 9780198826200
• ISBN-10: 0198826206
• Artikelnr.: 51386313

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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