1st Edition

Controversies and Dilemmas in Contemporary Psychiatry

By Dusan Kecmanovic Copyright 2011
331 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

The controversies and dilemmas in contemporary psychiatry are so numerous and serious that they, to a great extent, define psychiatry. Yet most psychiatrists pay little attention to the field's controversies, maintaining that talking about controversies tarnishes psychiatry's reputation and them along with it. Critics of psychiatry use these controversies and dilemmas, along with psychiatrists'... Read more
Preface, Dusan Kecmanovic; Introduction, Dusan Kecmanovic; Chapter 1 Towards a Definition of Mental Disorder, Dusan Kecmanovic; Chapter 2 From Normality to Mental Health, Dusan Kecmanovic; Chapter 3 Physical Diseases and Mental Disorders: Should They Be Differentiated?, Dusan Kecmanovic; Chapter 4 Conceptual Cacophony in Psychiatry, Dusan Kecmanovic; Chapter 5 Ending and Beginning, Dusan Kecmanovic;

Biography

Dusan Kecmanovic