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Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

By UCL.) Burns Tom (Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry Oxford. Honorary Professor of Psychiatry

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Psychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavour, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the medicalization of everyday life, and the role of nature versus nurture which cause constant discussion today, and on which almost everyone has an opinion. In this Very Short Introduction Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and discussing why its history has been beset by dramatic shifts in emphasis and types of treat...Show more

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9780198826200

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Oxford University Press

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2018

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Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

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