Healing Psychiatry
Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide
$70.86
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2009
Summary
A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field’s conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? Competing conceptions of mental illness as amenable to scientific explanation or as deeply complex and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513258 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262513250 |
| Author: | David H. Brendel |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Basic Bioethics |
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Critics Review
Any mental health worker would do well to read this book and take note of the main theme; patients come before theory.
—Journal of Mental HealthThe approach throughout is thoughtful, well-reasoned, and persuasive. Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and all mental health professionals will find it informative and challenging.
—The Bulletin of the Menninger ClinicAbout The Author
David H. Brendel
David H. Brendel is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Deputy Editor of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Psychiatry Residency Program at Massachusetts General and McLean hospitals.
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