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Peter Kinderman - Prescription for Psychiatry - 9781137408693 - V9781137408693
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Prescription for Psychiatry

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Description for Prescription for Psychiatry Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBPK; MMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
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.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137408693
SKU
V9781137408693
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Peter Kinderman
Peter Kinderman is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research activity and clinical work concentrate on understanding and helping people with serious and enduring mental health problems, and on how psychological science can assist public policy in health and social care.

Reviews for Prescription for Psychiatry
'Peter Kinderman puts his finger on much that is wrong with modern-day psychiatry, with its obsession with empty diagnostic labels, indiscriminate and uncomprehending use of toxic drugs for years on end, and its blindness to the social context of suffering and distress. Kinderman sketches a welcome vision of an alternative approach grounded in a society that fosters well-being through political ... Read more

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