A Prescription for Psychiatry Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Me

This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to lif

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10.1057/9781137408716 - A Prescription for Psychiatry, Peter Kinderman

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A Prescription for Psychiatry

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10.1057/9781137408716 - A Prescription for Psychiatry, Peter Kinderman

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to The Chinese University of Hong Kong - PalgraveConnect - 2016-03-06

NEW LAWS OF PSYCHOLOGY: Why Nature and Nurture Alone Cannot Explain Human Behaviour

Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing Peter Kinderman University of Liverpool, UK

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10.1057/9781137408716 - A Prescription for Psychiatry, Peter Kinderman

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to The Chinese University of Hong Kong - PalgraveConnect - 2016-03-06

A Prescription for Psychiatry

© Peter Kinderman 2014

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ISBN: 978–1–137–40869–3 Hardback ISBN: 978–1–137–40870–9 Paperback

This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kinderman, Peter, author. A prescription for psychiatry : why we need a whole new approach to mental health and wellbeing / Peter Kinderman. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978–1–137–40869–3 (hardback) – ISBN 978–1–137–40870–9 (paperback) I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Health Care Reform. 2. Mental Health Services – organization & administration. 3. Mental Disorders – therapy. 4. Mental Health. 5. Psychiatry – methods. WM 30.1] RC455 362.2—dc23

10.1057/9781137408716 - A Prescription