Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood

by Sami Timimi

Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural problems. Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood is a strong challenge to this way of thinking.
Sami Timimi uses a wide variety of sources that shape our understanding including his personal experiences to highlight the role of culture, beliefs,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583912169
• ISBN13: 9781583912164
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"