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DOCTORING THE MIND: WHY PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENTS FAIL PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Richard P. Bentall | 384 pages | 03 Jun 2010 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141023694 | English | London, United Kingdom Beyond antipsychiatry? The politics of mental illness | Overland literary journal Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organisation that suggests people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, Mind Medicine on Trial asks the question- how good are our mental health services, really? In this taut and finely argued book, Richard Bentall picks apart the science that underlies much current psychiatric practice across the US and UK. Challenging everything from the trials by which drugs are approved to the veracity of studies conducted that support drug treatment, and drawing on research he himself has conducted over the course of twenty years, Doctoring the Mind is surprising and humane, bringing the experience of both patients and mental health professionals into focus. Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on the patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this is a book set to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century. Account Options Anmelden. Meine Mediathek Hilfe Erweiterte Buchsuche. E-Book anzeigen. Richard P. Check all that apply - Please note that only the first page is available if you have not selected a reading option after clicking "Read Article". Include any more information that will help us locate the issue and fix it faster for you. The author dissects what he considers to be myths about mental illness. 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Hij stelt dat antipsychotica een effect kunnen hebben in de acute fase van de aandoening, maar dat er veel minder bewijs is voor het gunstige effect van een onderhoudsbehandeling. Hij houdt een pleidooi voor cognitieve gedragstherapie en bespreekt onder andere zijn eigen onderzoek hierin. Bentall illustreert zijn betoog met aangrijpende gevalsbeschrijvingen. Het is echter geen handleiding voor de behandeling van psychotische stoornissen, maar een theoretisch betoog. De auteur stelt dat men meer nadruk moet leggen op het verklaren en behandelen van symptomen en niet op ziektebeelden, maar hij bespreekt niet hoe een verdere onderverdeling van symptomen mogelijk nog betere verklaringen kan geven. Bentall does this well: it is, for example, hard to disagree with his conclusion, having surveyed the plentiful evidence that exists, that "most psychiatric diagnoses are about as scientifically meaningful as star signs". He has a deft touch when it comes to summarising, succinctly and accessibly, some of the more complicated technicalities of genetic research, brain biochemistry and statistical analysis the book is aimed at the "intelligent lay reader" as much as at the interested professional. Most psychiatric treatments, historically often unconscionable, are these days usually, of course, in the form of drug treatments either not effective at all or not nearly as effective as is often supposed; too often they may be harmful. The theories of brain functioning on which they rest are tenuous at best. As Bentall notes in his historical overview, all these points have been and are being made often and powerfully by others. Indeed, in the s it looked as though "the medical model", as we talked of it then, might not survive. But survive it did - if anything, more robustly than before. A good part of the reason for this, as he explains, is due to the enormously powerful interests of the drug companies, whose influence on research into the effectiveness of treatment has been, and is still, at least as great as their influence on medical practitioners themselves. Again, this point has also been made penetratingly and sometimes courageously by others. Perhaps the least convincing, or at any rate least effective, part of the book is where Bentall attempts to slide into the place he hopes might be vacated by psychiatry an understanding of mental illness, and an approach to treatment, based on the therapeutic procedures of clinical psychology. Here, however, his erstwhile "scientific" critical standards seem seriously to slip. Whereas, after fairly minute examination, research involving drug trials is found to be wanting, "the quality of psychotherapy trials has often been very good Science, as Bentall knows full well, does not answer questions definitively nor make discoveries beyond dispute. Beyond anti-psychiatry? The politics of mental illness - Left Flank In this taut and finely argued book, Richard Bentall picks apart the science that underlies much current psychiatric practice across the US and UK. Challenging everything from the trials by which drugs are approved to the veracity of studies conducted that support drug treatment, and drawing on research he himself has conducted over the course of twenty years, Doctoring the Mind is surprising and humane, bringing the experience of both patients and mental health professionals into focus. Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on the patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this is a book set to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century. Account Options Anmelden. Meine Mediathek Hilfe Erweiterte Buchsuche. These companies spend much more on advertising than on developing drugs. There are heavy-duty backers to the idea that mental illness is a medical condition that needs to be treated using drugs — follow the cash. This book, referenced to within an inch of its life, points out that on virtually every level the assumptions psychiatry makes about mental illness are both wrong and increase the suffering of those unfortunate enough to be treated according to this paradigm. This is a fascinating, important and infuriating book. View all 12 comments. I'll preface this by saying that I really appreciate the fact the author had the honesty of admitting the presence of personal bias in favour of clinical psychology. It really helped me to moderate my annoyance at some parts of this book. Thank you. I'll also add that I'm writing this as a person who has suffered from chronic depression since the age of twelve, and been treated in a non anglo-saxon EU country. As such, my experience of psychiatry has not been absolutely dominated by Big Pharma I'll preface this by saying that I really appreciate the fact the author had the honesty of admitting the presence of personal bias in favour of clinical psychology. As such, my experience of psychiatry has not been absolutely dominated by Big Pharma thank goodness. I've been researching psychiatry, anti- psychiatry, and looking to critical psychiatry for a while now and thus took to reading this book with a pinch of salt at the ready. I was ready to dump it before even starting it when I saw a review mentioning it as a great asset to the anti-psychiatry movement. I really have no patience for it. A lot of it is made up of fanatics who cry "pseudo-science" at psychiatry when they themselves know little about the nuances of scientific research, or the complexity of it when it adresses the amazing organ that is the brain. A lot of them are also mental illness denialists who have no more compassion for sufferers than the pharmadocs they despise so much. But I decided to give the book a try anyway. Now that I've finished, I'm pretty confident that the author is not, in fact, really anti-psychiatry. Although this was absolutely not apparent at first or even at middle. I'll come back to that. I'll start with what I enjoyed about the book: 1 The historical information was very interesting good History is always fun , and though I knew a bit of it already, I enjoyed learning new things. Although I don't see how these psychological mechanisms exclude the role of intrinsic biology for some people! Ironically though, that last point is problematic for two reasons: a I know for a fact that this method is already being put into practice, and has been for some time.