Description |
xix, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Thinking about patients. The man who lost his family -- Classrooms, cadavers, compassion and the soul -- The art of psychiatric diagnosis -- The woman with burning feet -- Oliver, Maria, and psychiatry's diagnostic and statistical manual -- The flood -- A tapestry of understandings: the psychiatric formulation -- Thinking about the brain. Broken -- Alone with the brain -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Personality disorders -- Eating disorders -- A note on the brain and the mind -- Thinking about the mind. The maggot -- The workings of the human mind -- Encountering the mind -- Connections -- Psychiatric disorders and the mind -- Thinking about society. The man with nowhere to go -- Psychiatry by numbers |
Analysis |
Mental Disorders case studies |
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Mental illness Case studies |
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Psychiatry Philosophy |
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Psychiatry Popular works |
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Psychotherapy case studies |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index |
Subject |
Mental illness -- Case studies.
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Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
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Psychiatry -- Popular works.
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Mental Disorders.
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Psychotherapy.
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Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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LC no. |
93013483 |
ISBN |
0880485213 (alk. paper) |
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