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[A] fascinating analysis of the scientific and medical exploration of the mind. Burns brings a carefully measured combination of personal and professional experience. Throughout this insightful and learned book, Burns poses questions, and offers some answers, that reveal the problematic nature of his profession and establish him as a thoughtful, erudite guide through a demanding landscape.

Provocative, well-researched, and well-suited to interested lay readers looking for insight into medicine and the mind.

A comprehensive history and analysis of the practice of psychiatry...A responsible, evenhanded exploration of a highly provocative medical industry.

A readable overview of the history and development of psychiatry.

Tom Burns is calm, sympathetic, and willing to listen to a wide variety of views. Just the person you would like to be in charge of your care if you were assailed by madness.

Displaying the dignified passion of someone trying to construct a better world, Burns shows us psychiatry's triumphs and is frank about its pitfalls.--Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree
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In what will be a tour de force in the field of psychiatry in all its complexity and depth, this important new volume explores the essential paradox of psychiatry—and offers a balanced understanding of its history and development in the medical world. Much is written about psychiatry, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need? For good or ill, psychiatry is a polemical battleground, criticized on the one hand as an instrument of social control, while on the other the latest developments in neuroscience are trumpeted as lasting solutions to mental illness.Which of these strikingly contrasting positions should we believe? This is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry. In this deeply thoughtful, descriptive, and sympathetic book, Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry, throughout alert to where psychiatry helps, and where it is imperfect. What is clear is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to what makes us human in the first place, and the drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human.Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempt to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore. It is our necessary shadow.

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  • EditorialPegasus Books
  • Año de publicación2016
  • ISBN 10 1605988367
  • ISBN 13 9781605988368
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