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Reviews the historical development of psychiatry. In this book, the author shows that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses.
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Our Necessary Shadow, Tom Burns
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- Our Necessary Shadow
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tom Burns
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0241954436
- ISBN13
- 9780241954430
- Description
- Reviews the historical development of psychiatry. In this book, the author shows that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses.