1st Edition
Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood
By Sami Timimi
Copyright 2002
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural problems. Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood is a strong challenge to this way of thinking. Sami Timimi uses a wide variety of sources that shape our understanding including his personal... Read more
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Biography
Sami Timimi is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist who works full time in the NHS in Lincolnshire.
