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- The only current guide to critical psychiatry designed for mental health physicians
- Presents strategies for ethical and clinical solutions
- Written by experts in the field
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a guide for psychiatrists struggling to incorporate transformational strategies into their clinical work. The book begins with an overview of the concept of critical psychiatry before focusing its analytic lens on the DSM diagnostic system, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, the crucial distinction between drug-centered and disease-centered approaches to pharmacotherapy, the concept of “de-prescribing,” coercion in psychiatric practice, and a range of other issues that constitute the targets of contemporary critiques of psychiatric theory and practice. Written by experts in each topic, this is the first book to explicate what has come to be called critical psychiatry from an unbiased and clinically relevant perspective.
Critical Psychiatry is an excellent, practical resource for clinicians seeking a solid foundation in the contemporary controversies within the field. General and forensic psychiatrists; family physicians,internists, and pediatricians who treat psychiatric patients; and mental health clinicians outside of medicine will all benefit from its conceptual insights and concrete advice.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Howard Center, Burlington, USA
Sandra Steingard
About the editor
Chief Medical Officer
Howard Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Vermont
Larner College of Medicine
300 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Psychiatry
Book Subtitle: Controversies and Clinical Implications
Editors: Sandra Steingard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02732-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02731-5Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02732-2Published: 24 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, General Practice / Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Forensic Medicine