| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xii, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Previous edition: 1997. |
| Contents |
The history of psychiatry -- Making sense of a life -- Defining and classifying mental illnesses -- The psychiatrist at work -- Stress, crisis and coping -- The spectrum of anxiety -- The highs and lows of mood-- The mind talking through the body -- Eating disorders -- Disturbances of personality -- The psychoses -- Alcohol and drug abuse -- Gender identity and sexual disorders -- Children and adolescents -- Women -- The elderly -- Suicide and deliberate self-harm -- Drugs and other physical treatments -- The psychotherapies -- Promoting mental health -- An ethical dimension. |
| Summary |
Most of us take our mental health for granted. But when confronted by mental illness in our family, our friends or ourselves, even the most competent among us is likely to become bewildered. UNDERSTANDING TROUBLED MINDS guides us calmly and authoritatively through the full range of mental illnesses and available treatments. It deals with particular patterns of illness in women, children and the elderly. Stressing the value of partnership between psychiatrists, patients and their families, it tells us just what it is that psychiatrists and fellow health-workers do. A sense of hope and optimism prevails. The author, an eminent academic psychiatrist of long practical experience, emphasizes that great strides are being made in the treatment of mental illness. Woven through his text, in acknowledgement of the complexity of human nature, are stories of real people. This balanced, up-to-date book is warm-hearted and thoroughly readable. It will increase both our practical knowledge and our deeper understanding of mental illness. |
| Form |
Also available in electronic version via the Internet. |
| Subject |
Mental illness.
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
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Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst01016606
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| ISBN |
9780522857542 (pbk.) |
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052285754X (pbk.) |
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