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Doctoring the Mind

Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?

By: Richard P. Bentall

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Doctoring the Mind

Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?

By: Richard P. Bentall

Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the "Prozac Age" and believed we had moved far beyond the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn’t. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organization that suggests that people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, Doctoring the Mind asks the question: how good are our mental healthcare services, really? Richard P. Bentall picks apart the science that underlies our current psychiatric practice. He puts the patient back at the heart of treatment for mental illness, making the case that a good relationship between patients and their doctors is the most important indicator of whether someone will recover. Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on 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.

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NYU Press

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0814787231

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9780814787236

Madness Explained

Psychosis and Human Nature

By: Richard P Bentall

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Madness Explained

Psychosis and Human Nature

By: Richard P Bentall

Today most of us accept the consensus that madness is a medical condition: an illness, which can be identified, classified and treated with drugs like any other. In this ground breaking and controversial work Richard Bentall shatters the myths that surround madness. He shows there is no reassuring dividing line between mental health and mental illness. Severe mental disorders can no longer be reduced to brain chemistry, but must be understood psychologically, as part of normal behaviour andhuman nature. Bentall argues that we need a radically new way of thinking about psychosis and its treatment. Could it be that it is a fear of madness, rather than the madness itself, that is our problem?

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Penguin UK

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0141909323

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9780141909325

Doctoring the Mind

Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?

By: Richard P. Bentall

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Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?

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0814791484

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9780814791486

Think You're Crazy? Think Again

A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

By: Anthony P. Morrison,Julia Renton,Paul French,Richard Bentall

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Think You're Crazy? Think Again

A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

By: Anthony P. Morrison,Julia Renton,Paul French,Richard Bentall

Are you troubled by hearing voices or seeing visions that others do not? Do you believe that other people are trying to harm you or control you? Do you feel that something odd is going on that you can’t explain or that things are happening around you with a special meaning? Do you worry that other people can read your mind or that thoughts are being put in your head? Think You’re Crazy? Think Again provides an effective step-by-step aid to understanding your problems, making positive changes and promoting recovery. Written by experts in the field, this book will help you to: understand how your problems developed and what keeps them going use questionnaires and monitoring sheets to identify and track changes in the links between your experiences, how you make sense of these and how you feel and behave learn how to change thoughts, feelings and behaviour for the better practice skills between sessions using worksheets Based on clinically proven techniques and filled with examples of how cognitive therapy can help people with distressing psychotic experiences, Think You’re Crazy? Think Again will be a valuable resource for people with psychosis.

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Routledge

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1317822161

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9781317822165

Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

A Formulation-Based Approach

By: Anthony Morrison,Julia Renton,Hazel Dunn,Steve Williams,Richard Bentall

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Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

A Formulation-Based Approach

By: Anthony Morrison,Julia Renton,Hazel Dunn,Steve Williams,Richard Bentall

Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis provides clinicians with a comprehensive cognitive model that can be applied to all patients with schizophrenia and related disorders in order to aid the development of a formulation that will incorporate all relevant factors. It illustrates the process of assessment, formulation and intervention and highlights potential difficulties arising from work with patients and how they can be overcome. Experienced clinicians write assuming no prior knowledge of the area, covering all of the topics of necessary importance including: * an introduction to cognitive theory and therapy * difficulties in engagement and the therapeutic relationship * how best to utilise homework with people who experience psychosis * relapse prevention and management. Illustrated by excerpts from therapy sessions, this book digests scientific evidence and theory but moreover provides clinicians with essential practical advice about how to best aid people with psychoses.

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288

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Routledge

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1135447810

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9781135447816

Doctoring the Mind

Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail

By: Richard P. Bentall

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Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail

By: Richard P. Bentall

Towards the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the 'Prozac Age' and believed we had moved on definitively from the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn't. 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, Doctoring the Mind asks the question: how good are our mental health services, really? Richard Bentall picks apart the science that underlies current psychiatric practice across the US and UK. Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on 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.

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Penguin Books Canada

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071399889X

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9780713998894

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Doctoring the Mind

Doctoring the Mind

Madness Explained

Madness Explained

Doctoring the Mind

Doctoring the Mind

Think You're Crazy? Think Again

Think You're Crazy? Think Again

Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

Doctoring the Mind

Doctoring the Mind

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