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Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond: A Psychiatrist's Chronicle from Deinstitutionalisation to Community Care
Nick Bouras
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Description for Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond: A Psychiatrist's Chronicle from Deinstitutionalisation to Community Care
Paperback. A personal testament of events witnessed over the years of major ideological trends in mental health. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; JKS; MBPK; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 280.
Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond is a personal journey though British psychiatry, the NHS and academic life for over 40 years. It describes personal experience as perceived by a postgraduate student, practicing clinician, teacher, trainer, researcher and health service manager.This book presents a personal historical chronicle and a panoramic view of some of the most significant milestones of modern psychiatry. The process of developing mental health services including those for people with intellectual disabilities through a maze of policies, sometimes contradictory, but also with strong ideological, sociological and political encounters proved to be a ... Read more
Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond is a personal journey though British psychiatry, the NHS and academic life for over 40 years. It describes personal experience as perceived by a postgraduate student, practicing clinician, teacher, trainer, researcher and health service manager.This book presents a personal historical chronicle and a panoramic view of some of the most significant milestones of modern psychiatry. The process of developing mental health services including those for people with intellectual disabilities through a maze of policies, sometimes contradictory, but also with strong ideological, sociological and political encounters proved to be a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Hove, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911028413
SKU
V9781911028413
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Ref
99-12
About Nick Bouras
Nick Bouras MD, PhD, FRCPsych is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is currently Programme Director of Maudsley International. His research focuses on mental health service related topics including, social and biological determinants of behaviour in ... Read more
Reviews for Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond: A Psychiatrist's Chronicle from Deinstitutionalisation to Community Care
Professor G.E. Berrios, Cambridge University: 'Intellectual autobiographies contribute greatly to historical understanding. Good ones are also pleasurable to read. Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond captures a period of change in psychiatry. The great and the good are depicted strutting on the metropolitan stage showing the rest of us how things psychiatric should be done. ... Read more