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Title: Fads & Fallacies in Psychiatry
Author: PARIS JOEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/10/2013
Imprint: ROYAL COLLEGE PSYCHIATRIS
Price: $27.95
Publishing status: Active
Since mental illness is still a mystery, and answers to the most important questions about it may require another century of research, it is important to criticise contemporary practice—especially as fads in psychiatry have occurred not only on the fringe, but in the very mainstream of theory and practice. Some of the trendiest theoretical paradigms may turn out to be unsupported by data. In diagnosis, the many faddish approaches to classification are unlikely to last. In treatment, both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy sometimes embrace interventions with a weak base in evidence that run the risk of doing harm to patients. This book examines fads and fallacies, both past and present, that plague psychiatry, in both diagnosis and in treatment.
ISBN: 9781909726062
Pages: 124