Medicine Over Mind: Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era

by Dena T. Smith

We live in an era in which medicalization--the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatment--of mental health troubles has been settled for several decades. Yet little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners' experiences. Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813598664
• ISBN13: 9780813598666
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher