Dena T Smith

Medicine Over Mind

Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813598666
• ISBN-10: 0813598664
• Artikelnr.: 56292758

Autorenporträt

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