Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail

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Why is the Western world’s treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK? In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall reveals the shocking truths behind the system of mental health care in the West. With a heavy dependence on pills and the profit they bring, psychiatry has been relying on myths and misunderstandings of madness for too long, and builds on methods which can often hinder rather than help the patient. Bentall argues passionately for a new future of mental health, one that considers the patient as an individual and redefines our understanding and treatment of madness for the twenty-first century.

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Weight 0.284 kg
Dimensions 2 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Language

Pages

384

publisher

Year Published

2010-6-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0141023694

About The Author

Richard Bentall has held chairs in clinical psychology at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester, and is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bangor in Wales. Known internationally for his research into the causes and treatment of severe mental illness, his previous book, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature won the British Psychological Society Book Award for 2004.

Bentall is one of psychiatry's most eloquent enemies . . . the drugs don't work

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It is the very balance of his approach that drives his opponents crazy . . . Passionate . . . a brave book

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