1st Edition
Challenging Psychiatry’s Reliance on the Disease Model A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The origins of psychiatric disease theory
Chapter 2 Materialism as a symptom
Chapter 3 Does diagnosis always imply disease?
Chapter 4 Investigating psychiatry’s preoccupation with disease
Chapter 5 Differential diagnosis and other approaches to mental health conditions
Chapter 6 Prescribing the cure
Chapter 7 Neurodevelopmental disorder as a model for every mental health condition
Chapter 8 Management of schizophrenia: widening the neurodevelopmental model to all mental health conditions
Chapter 9 A Possible New Future for Psychiatry
Biography
Digby Tantam studied at Oxford, Harvard, London, and the Open Universities. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society, and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine and Population, University of Sheffield; a director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling; and a visiting professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years.
“There are few better people who have the breadth of experience, knowledge or skill to lead the debate about the relationship between disease models in neurodevelopmental psychiatry. The book will help to shape a debate that is both timely and important to address.”
- Professor Raja Mukherjee, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Psychiatrist
