Psychiatric Polarities: Methodology and Practice

by Phillip R. Slavney, Paul R. McHugh, Paul R McHugh

Book Overview

A lively exploration of mind and brain, conscious and unconscious, patient and client.

In this companion volume to their widely acclaimed Perspectives of Psychiatry, Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., and Paul R. McHugh, M.D., argue that the discontinuity of brain and mind is the source of much of psychiatry's discord, for it leads psychiatrists to think about their discipline in terms of polar opposites: conscious or unconscious; explanation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421419769
• ISBN13: 9781421419763
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"