Prescriptions for the Mind

A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry

Joel Paris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-531383-3 (ISBN)

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The practice of psychiatry has undergone great changes in recent years. In this book, Joel Paris, MD, a veteran psychiatrist, provides a fluently written and accessible "state-of-the-field" assessment. Himself a clinician, researcher, and teacher, Paris focuses on the most striking change within the field - the diverging roles of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in contemporary practice. Where once psychiatrists were trained in Freudian psychoanalysis - which involved, more than anything else, talking - current pressures in mental health practice, including those imposed by managed care, are leading psychiatrists to treat more and more of their patients exclusively with medication, which is cheaper and faster. At the same time, psychotherapy is increasingly not being taught to new psychiatrists-in-training, even though, as Paris reveals, there is scientific evidence that both talk therapies and medication can play an important role in the treatment of mental illness. These developments are occuring against a backdrop of exploding research in the genetics and neurobiology of mental illness that will continue to drive the field. Paris ends by contemplating how going forward psychiatry can best respond to all these forces and proposes a team-based approach to mental health care. The book will appeal both to specialists and nonspecialists, particularly psychiatric residents and fellows, medical students considering specialization in psychiatry, clinical psychologists, social workers, and general readers, especially consumers of mental health services.

PART I - MODELS ; PART II - DIAGNOSIS ; PART III - TREATMENT ; PART IV - OUTLOOK

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 142 mm
Gewicht	459 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-19-531383-6 / 0195313836
ISBN-13	978-0-19-531383-3 / 9780195313833
Zustand	Neuware