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A Prescription for Psychiatry lays bare the flaws and failings of traditional mental health care and offers a radical alternative. Exposing the old-fashioned biological 'disease model' of psychiatry as unscientific and unhelpful, it calls for a revolution in the way we plan and deliver care. Kinderman challenges the way we think about mental health problems, arguing that the origins of distress are largely social, and urges a change from a 'disease model' to a 'psychosocial model'. The book persuasively argues that we should significantly reduce our use of psychiatric medication, and help should be tailored to each person's unique needs. This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Medicine Medicine: general issues Health systems & services

• Full title: Prescription for Psychiatry
• Author: Peter Kinderman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9781137408709
• ISBN: 1137408707
• ID: 02705999
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 144 × 209 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. September 2014

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