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Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities
Philip Thomas
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Description for Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities
Paperback. Scientific research has helped us to understand how contexts of adversity, such as trauma, abuse, and experiences of racism can lead to psychosis, This book argues that if we are to prioritise the role of values and ethics in mental health care, we must engage actively with the contexts of patients' lives. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 17. Weight in Grams: 528.
This book examines the central role of contexts in understanding psychosis and distress. The contexts in which we all exist, historical, cultural, social, political, economic and interpersonal, shape and give meaning to our lives for good or for bad. Scientific research confirms how contexts of adversity such as trauma, abuse, and racism can lead to psychosis. Thomas argues that if we are to prioritise the role of values and ethics in mental health care we must engage actively with the contexts of patients' lives rather than focus on the endlessly fruitless search for the biological origins of distress and increasingly ... Read more
This book examines the central role of contexts in understanding psychosis and distress. The contexts in which we all exist, historical, cultural, social, political, economic and interpersonal, shape and give meaning to our lives for good or for bad. Scientific research confirms how contexts of adversity such as trauma, abuse, and racism can lead to psychosis. Thomas argues that if we are to prioritise the role of values and ethics in mental health care we must engage actively with the contexts of patients' lives rather than focus on the endlessly fruitless search for the biological origins of distress and increasingly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
PCCS Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906254728
SKU
V9781906254728
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Ref
99-15
About Philip Thomas
Philip Thomas worked as a full-time consultant psychiatrist in the NHS for over twenty years. He left clinical practice in 2004 to write. He has published over 100 papers mostly in peer-reviewed journals, latterly in philosophy and its relevance to madness and society. He is well known for working in alliance with survivors of psychiatry, service users and community groups, ... Read more
Reviews for Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities
Wise, accessible and humane critique of psychiatry, by a psychiatrist. Essential reading for all those concerned with the future of psychiatry. Jacqui Dillon, researcher, campaigner, international speaker and trainer. Chair of Hearing Voices Network. Editor, Models of Madness (2013)