A Very Short Introduction - 152: Psychiatry
A Very Short Introduction
Authors
Book rating
More about the book
Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.
Book purchase
A Very Short Introduction - 152: Psychiatry, Tom Burns
- Language
- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
3.7
Very Good
99+ Ratings
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- A Very Short Introduction - 152: Psychiatry
- Subtitle
- A Very Short Introduction
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tom Burns
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0192807277
- ISBN13
- 9780192807274
- Series
- Categories
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.


