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Doctoring the Mind Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail

Paperback • 2010 • English

Doctoring the Mind Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail

By Richard P Bentall

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Towards the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the 'Prozac Age' and believed we had moved on definitively from the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn�t. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Org...Show more

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9780141023694

Publisher

Penguin Adult

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Doctoring the Mind Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail

Format

Paperback

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