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9780521337618

The Reality of Mental Illness

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521337618

  • ISBN10:

    0521337615

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1986-07-25
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mental illness, psychiatry and its critics
Disorders of the mind and the role of medicine in historical perspective
The evidence from transcultural enquiries
A consideration of the mind-body problem and its bearing on the concept of disease
Medical and alternative models of mental disease
Social, ethical and philosophical aspects of involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence
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