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Author Sutherland, N. S. (Norman Stuart)

Title Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma / Stuart Sutherland
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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 MELB  616.890092 Suther Sut/Bap 1998  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Preface -- Part I - Manic Depression - A Personal Account -- 1. Onset -- 2. Background -- 3. Psychoanalysis -- 4. The hospital -- 5. Treatment -- 6. Recovery -- 7. Aftermath -- 8. Sequel -- 9. Postscript -- Part II - Mental Illness: Its Nature, Origins, and Treatment -- 10. Who's who -- 11. The nature of mental illness -- 12. Diagnosis -- 13. The origins of mental illness -- 14. Freudian theory and practice -- 15. Evaluation of Freud -- 16. The Freudian cult -- 17. The wars between the analysts -- 18. Psychotherapeutic sects -- 19. Group therapy -- 20. The wilder shores of therapy -- 21. Behaviour therapy -- 22. Cognitive therapies -- 23. Psychotherapy assessed -- 24. Manipulating the brain -- 25. The use of drugs -- 26. How drugs work -- 27. What goes wrong -- 28. Therapeutic folly -- 29. Ethics and mental illness -- 30. Choice of treatment -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Sutherland, N. S. (Norman Stuart)
Mentally ill -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Psychotherapists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Psychotherapy.
Bipolar Disorder.
Psychotherapy [MESH]
Psychotherapy.
Genre/Form biography [MESH]
Autobiographies.
LC no. 98019542
ISBN 0198523807 (alk. paper)