Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

by Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas

How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is something to be feared, something to be left to the experts. But is madness best thought of as a medical condition? Psychiatrists and the drug industry maintain that psychoses are brain disorders amenable to treatment with drugs, but is this actually so? There is no convincing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198526091
• ISBN13: 9780198526094
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"