Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma
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Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma
Oxford University Press, 1995, c1987
Updated ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Fifteen years ago, Stuart Sutherland, himself a psychologist, suffered a severe mental breakdown. In the first edition of this work, he recounted his experiences of this agonizing event with remarkable candour and perception. His illness lasted, with intermissions, for 10 years. In this updated edition, he describes its consequences, which were often bizarre. As a psychologist, the author was prompted by his illness to rethink the problems of the care and treatment of the mentally ill, and in the book he examines the benefits and pitfalls of the many methods of treatment. His controversial review will cause concern among many psychiatrists and psychotherapists, but he has undoubtedly succeeded in penetrating the ignorance and prejudice surrounding mental illness.
Table of Contents
- Onset
- Background
- Psychoanalysis
- The hospital
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Aftermath
- Sequel
- The nature of mental illness
- The origins of mental illness
- Freudian theory and practice
- Evaluation of Freud
- Popularity of Freud
- Varieties of analysis
- Analysts and their patients today
- Other forms of individual psychotherapy
- Group therapy
- The wilder shores of therapy
- Behaviour therapy
- Manipulating the brain
- Psychotropic drugs
- Ethics and mental illness
- Improving methods of treatment
- The choice of treatment
- Recent advances.
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