Critical Psychiatry
Controversies and Clinical Implications
Editors: Steingard, Sandra (Ed.)
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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.
- About the authors
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Sandra Steingard, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Howard Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Vermont
Larner College of Medicine
300 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401 - Reviews
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“Readers of CMHJ will want to read Critical Psychiatry, Controversies and Clinical Implications cover to cover. This slim, highly readable edited volume is a thoughtfully presented collection of essays addressing all the cringe-worthy aspects of ‘modern’ psychiatry in a frank, open and refreshing manner. … I recommend it highly.” (Margaret M. Chaplin and Michael Flaum, Community Mental Health Journal, Vol. 55, 2019)
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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What Is Critical Psychiatry?
Pages 1-15
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Toward Conceptual Competence in Psychiatric Diagnosis: An Ecological Model for Critiques of the DSM
Pages 17-69
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The Influence of Pharmaceutical Companies and Restoring Integrity to Psychiatric Research and Practice
Pages 71-96
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An Alternative Approach to Drug Treatment in Psychiatry
Pages 97-111
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Clinical Implications of the Drug-Centered Approach
Pages 113-135
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Critical Psychiatry
- Book Subtitle
- Controversies and Clinical Implications
- Editors
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- Sandra Steingard
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-02732-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-02732-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-02731-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 225
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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