精神病院で行われた医学的実践とは異なる形で発展してきた精神医学に対しては、多くの議論があります。模索の過程で犯した過去の過ちを振り返り、その正当性をめぐる哲学的問題を検討するほか、統合失調症や双極性障害を例にこの領域について考察します。認知症のような今日的課題、人口知能や仮想現実の進展が見込まれる将来も展望します。
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Psychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavour, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the medicalization of everyday life, and the role of nature versus nurture which cause constant discussion today, and on which almost everyone has an opinion.
In this Very Short Introduction Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and discussing why its history has been beset by dramatic shifts in emphasis and types of treatment. Considering the main disorders that have shaped its practice (such as schizophrenia and manic depression), he analyses how it differs from (and overlaps with) psychology and psychotherapy. Many of the controversies arise from its dual origin 200 years ago and the separate development of psychiatry with a more 'medical' approach in the asylums, rather than the psychological approach which birthed psychoanalysis and various forms of psychotherapy. Discussing philosophical issues of psychiatry's legitimacy, Burns explores the mistakes psychiatry has made and the blind alleys in its history, before looking forward to the likely changes in its practice with the coming of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
1: What is psychiatry?
2: Asylums and the origins of psychiatry
3: The move into the community
4: Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
5: Psychiatry under attack
6: Open to abuse
7: Into the 21st century
Further reading
Index
"This highly readable introductory book from a respected psychiatrist addresses many of the issues that underlie the stigma still associated with mental illness. Wide ranging in its scope of topics presented in an understandable way, the author addresses the many successful developments but does not shy away from discussing some of the celebrated but ineffective blind alleys that psychiatrists have gone down in the search for cure. This book serves as an ideal foundation for the lay reader and deserves a wide audience." - Dr Michael Maier President of the Psychiatry section, Royal Society of Medicine.
ISBN : 9780198826200
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