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Our Necessary Shadow - The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry (Hardcover)
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Our Necessary Shadow - The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry (Hardcover)
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Price R482
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Our Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to
explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading
expert, Tom Burns A lot is written about psychiatry and the things
it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself.
Why should there be such a need? There isn't a raft of books
explaining all the other branches of medicine. But for good or ill,
psychiatry is a polemical battleground, critcised on the one hand
as an instrument of social control or a barbaric practice, while on
the other the latest developments in neuroscience are trumpeted as
offering lasting solutions to mental illness. Which of these
strikingly contrasting positions should we believe? This is the
first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of
psychiatry. In this deeply thoughtful, descriptive and sympathetic
book, Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry,
the places where there is much agreement on treatment and where
there is not, throughout alert to where psychiatry helps, and where
it is imperfect. What is clear is that mental illnesses are
intimately tied to what makes us human in the first place. And the
drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human.
Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best
attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not
something we can just ignore. It is our necessary shadow. Tom Burns
is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the
late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and
teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific
articles.
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