{"product_id":"doctoring-the-mind-is-our-current-treatment-of-mental-illness-really-any-good-9780814791486","title":"Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?","description":"\u003cp\u003eToward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the \"Prozac Age\" and believed we had moved far beyond the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organization that suggests that people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, \u003cstrong\u003eDoctoring the Mind\u003c\/strong\u003e asks the question: how good are our mental healthcare services, really? Richard P. Bentall picks apart the science that underlies our current psychiatric practice. He puts the patient back at the heart of treatment for mental illness, making the case that a good relationship between patients and their doctors is the most important indicator of whether someone will recover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this is a book set to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard P. Bentall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.32w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814791486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/09\/2009 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/24\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBentall, Richard P.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRichard P. Bentall\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Bangor in Wales. He has held chairs in clinical psychology at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester. Known internationally for his research into the causes and treatment of severe mental illness, he is also the author of the award-winning book \u003ci\u003eMadness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40440988663923,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":71.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_533561ac-c218-4689-b78e-681b07bfca32.jpg?v=1663253119","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/doctoring-the-mind-is-our-current-treatment-of-mental-illness-really-any-good-9780814791486","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}