Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it – from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and ‘normality’.

MMH; MMJ; MBNH9; MBX

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Tom Burns – Oxford University Press