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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 27th June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Anne Harrington. The publishers say: “Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. Harrington shows how little the biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science and why the field…
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The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 15th August 2017 1 Comment

This book has been written by Prof. Meredith Small. The publishers say: “By many estimations, the Western medical model of mental health is dangerously incomplete. If we step outside of the traditional disease model there are many new and different…
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