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.
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.
DENA T. SMITH is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of Maryland-Baltimore County where she teaches the sociology of mental health and illness, and medical sociology.
Inhaltsangabe
From meaning-making to medicalization Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice
From meaning-making to medicalization Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice
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