A Very Short Introduction - 152: Psychiatry

A Very Short Introduction

Autor*innen

• Tom Burns

Parameter

• 160 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Handbücher und Anleitungen
• Medizin & Gesundheit
• Psychologische Thematik
• Sachliteratur
• Wissenschaft

Mehr zum Buch

Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Einband: Paperback