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A Short Introduction to Psychiatry

  • ISBN-13: 9780761971382
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Linda Gask
  • Price: AUD $348.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 22/06/2004
  • Format: Hardback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 184 pages Weight: 340g
  • Categories: Psychiatry [MMH]
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A Short Introduction to Psychiatry is designed to give readers a clear picture of the profession as it is today and an understanding of the subject from which to develop further study. Linda Gask describes the development of the profession, the route to qualification and the scope of contemporary practice, including the work done by psychiatrists in a range of specialisms - from child psychiatry to addiction services and forensic psychiatry. Drawing on the experience of people who have been through psychiatric treatment, the book also explores what psychiatry is like from the patient's//user's perspective. Many criticisms have been levelled against the profession and the author, Linda Gask summarizes key debates which have been and continue to be played out between psychiatry's critics and its defenders.
Linda Gask is Reader in Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for ten years.
Psychiatry Historical Context of a Profession The Culture of Psychiatry Experiencing Psychiatry The Scope and Limits of Psychiatry The Future
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