Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry

by Joel Paris

The practice of psychiatry has undergone great changes in recent years. In this book, Joel Paris, MD, a veteran psychiatrist, provides a fluently written and accessible "state-of-the-field" assessment. Himself a clinician, researcher, and teacher, Paris focuses on the most striking change within the field - the diverging roles of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in contemporary practice. Where once psychiatrists were trained in Freudian psychoanalysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195313836
• ISBN13: 9780195313833
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"