Our Psychiatric Future

by Nikolas S Rose and Nikolas Rose

Book Overview

Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate between mental disorders normal eccentricities, anxieties or even sadness? Should the power of psychiatrists be challenged by the knowledge of those with lived experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745689124
• ISBN13: 9780745689128
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"