Most of us take our mental health for granted. But when
confronted by mental illness in our family, our friends, or
ourselves, even the most competent among us is likely to become
bewildered.
Understanding Troubled Minds provides a calm and authoritative
guide to the full range of specific mental illnesses and available
treatments. It deals with particular patterns of illness in women,
children, and the elderly. It stresses the value of partnership
among psychiatrists, patients, and their families. And it places
this knowledge within the framework of modern psychiatry-from the
history of the profession to just what it is that psychiatrists and
fellow health-workers do, and how they can help.
A sense of hope and optimism prevails within these pages. The
authors, both eminent psychiatrists with long practical experience,
stress that great strides are being made in the treatment of mental
illness. But they also warn against the lure of the instant cure.
Acknowledging the complexity of human nature, they weave the
stories of real people and the insights of many writers throughout
their text.
Balanced, up-to-date, thoroughly readable, and humanistic, this
book will both increase our practical knowledge and deepen our
understanding of mental illness.
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