Digby Tantam

Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model (eBook, PDF)

A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040110355
• Artikelnr.: 72284868

Autorenporträt

Digby Tantam studied at Oxford, Harvard, London, and the Open Universities. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society, and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine and Population, University of Sheffield; a director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling; and a visiting professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The origins of psychiatric disease theory
Chapter 2 Materialism as a symptom
Chapter 3 Does diagnosis always imply disease?
Chapter 4 Investigating psychiatry's preoccupation with disease
Chapter 5 Differential diagnosis and other approaches to mental health
conditions
Chapter 6 Prescribing the cure
Chapter 7 Neurodevelopmental disorder as a model for every mental health
condition
Chapter 8 Management of schizophrenia: widening the neurodevelopmental
model to all mental health conditions
Chapter 9 A Possible New Future for Psychiatry