Introducing Psychiatry

Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Human beings in crisis
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How common is mental illness?
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Why don't more people seek psychiatric help?
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What happened before psychiatry was invented?......Page 7
Examples of "primitive psychiatry"......Page 8
Possession......Page 9
Exorcism......Page 10
Healing through gratification offrustrations......Page 11
Rational therapies in primitive psychiatry......Page 12
The primitive healer's creative illness......Page 13
Temple healing and philosophical 
psychotherapy......Page 14
The Consolations of Philosophy......Page 15
Galen's Stoical approach......Page 16
Galen's therapeutic methods......Page 17
The Roman Catholic Church and its"cures"......Page 18
The Witch Trials......Page 19
Paracelsus......Page 20
Scientific therapy......Page 21
The Enlightenment......Page 22
Animal Magnetism......Page 23
The rise of Mesmer......Page 24
The end of Mesmer......Page 25
Puységur's new magnetism......Page 26
Romanticism......Page 27
The Salpêtrière School......Page 28
The Nancy School......Page 29
Pierre Janet......Page 30
Emil Kraepelin......Page 31
Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis......Page 32
The essence of psychoanalytic theory......Page 33
The role of the psychoanalyst......Page 34
Freud's influence......Page 35
Jung's analytical psychology......Page 36
Binswanger's existential analysis......Page 37
Dynamic versus organic psychiatry......Page 38
Psychiatric hospitals......Page 39
Should we close the hospitals?......Page 40
What causes mental illness?......Page 41
Social causes of mental illness......Page 42
Genetic causes of mental illness......Page 43
Other issues about seeking help......Page 44
Who is a psychiatrist?......Page 45
So what methods do psychiatrists use?......Page 46
Psychiatric drugs in four main groups......Page 47
Therapies and professionals......Page 49
What does a psychiatrist do?......Page 50
Who are the patients?......Page 51
What are the most common diagnoses and can they be treated?......Page 52
Who gets "locked up"?......Page 53
What are the locking-up laws?......Page 54
Other locking-up "sections"(MHA 1983)......Page 55
What is DSH?......Page 56
How is locking up decided?......Page 57
What should a patient know about psychiatry before seeing a psychiatrist?......Page 59
Common psychiatric jargon......Page 60
What actually happens when a patient visits a psychiatrist?......Page 61
Mental state assessment......Page 63
Stage three: formulation or case assessment......Page 65
Clinical diagnosis and treatment......Page 67
Main categories of mental disorders......Page 68
What are the main treatments?......Page 69
1. Personality disorders (p.d.)......Page 70
Category 2: Neuroses......Page 73
Phobic Anxiety Neuroses......Page 75
Clinical features of phobia......Page 76
The management of phobic anxiety neuroses......Page 79
Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses(OCN)......Page 81
Aetiology of OCN......Page 84
Management of OCN......Page 85
Hysteria......Page 86
References to hysteria......Page 87
Clinical features of hysteria......Page 88
Why does hysteria occur?......Page 89
Management of hysteria......Page 91
Hypochondriasis......Page 92
Management of hypochondriasis......Page 93
Paranoid states......Page 94
Special paranoid conditions......Page 95
Further paranoid delusions......Page 97
Aetiology of paranoia......Page 98
Management of simple paranoid states......Page 99
Management of induced psychosis......Page 100
Affective disorders......Page 101
Depressive delusions......Page 105
Clinical features of mania (or hypomania)......Page 106
Aetiology of affective disorders......Page 109
Management of affective disorders......Page 113
Psychological treatment of depression......Page 114
Schizophrenia......Page 115
Clinical features of schizophrenia......Page 117
Aetiology of schizophrenia......Page 119
Biochemical theories ofschizophrenia......Page 120
Psychological theories ofschizophrenia......Page 121
Social influences in schizophrenia......Page 122
Abnormal families andschizophrenia......Page 123
Neurological abnormalities inschizophrenia......Page 124
Management of schizophrenia......Page 125
Prognosis of schizophrenia......Page 126
Organic disorders......Page 127
Aetiology of acute disorders......Page 128
Clinical features of chronic organic disorders......Page 129
Aetiology of chronic disorders......Page 130
Diagnosis of organic disorders......Page 131
Management of organic disorders......Page 132
Eating disorders......Page 133
Clinical features of anorexia......Page 134
Physical consequences of anorexia......Page 135
Aetiology of anorexia......Page 136
Management of anorexia nervosa......Page 137
Prognosis of anorexia......Page 138
Alcohol dependence......Page 139
Clinical features of alcohol dependence......Page 140
Further alcohol-related disorders......Page 141
Aetiology of alcohol dependence......Page 142
Management of alcohol dependence......Page 143
Psychological treatments......Page 144
Drug dependence......Page 145
Clinical features of drug dependence......Page 146
Other drugs......Page 147
Aetiology of drug dependence......Page 151
Management of drug dependence......Page 152
Rehabilitation of drug abusers......Page 153
Social criticisms of psychiatry......Page 154
Anti-psychiatry......Page 155
The self and others......Page 156
Anti-psychiatry communities......Page 157
Other anti-psychiatrists......Page 158
The "myth of mental illness"......Page 159
The anti-Oedipus criticism......Page 160
Schizoanalysis......Page 161
Foucault and postmodern history......Page 162
Towards a new psychiatry......Page 163
Changes in psychiatry today......Page 164
The need for psychiatry......Page 165
Internet problems......Page 166
Effects of internet abuse......Page 167
Internet pornography......Page 168
The conditioning effect......Page 169
Future pharmacy......Page 170
Psychiatry in crisis?......Page 171
"Proactive psychiatry"......Page 173
"Open psychiatry"?......Page 174
Help and further reading......Page 175
Index......Page 177
Back Cover
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