Medicine over Mind - Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era (Hardcover)

We live in an era in which medicalization-the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatment-of mental health troubles has been settled for several decades. Yet little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners' experiences. Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades. This is a book about practitioners working in a medicalized field; for some practitioners this is a straightforward and relatively tension-free existence while for others, who believe in and practice in-depth talk therapy, the biomedical perspective is much more challenging and causes personal and professional strains.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Release date:	September 2019
Authors:	Dena T Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-9867-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Rehabilitation Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-9867-2
Barcode:	9780813598673

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