Doctoring the Mind

Richard P Bentall

RRP: £25.00

Publisher: ALLEN LANE

Publication Date : 25/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Subtitled, "Is Our Current Treatment Of Mental Illness Really Any Good?". New evidence from the WHO suggests that people recover better from mental illness in developing countries than in the first world; so how far have we really come from full frontal lobotomies?

Publisher's description:

Towards the end of the 20th century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions. Arguing for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this book intends to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 9780713998894