
Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry (Paperback)
Professor Tom Burns (author)
£10.99
Paperback
384 Pages
Published: 05/06/2014
Published: 05/06/2014
In this deeply thoughtful, descriptive and sympathetic book, Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry. What he reveals is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. The drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore or decide to leave. It is our necessary shadow.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241954430
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 281 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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Superbly clear history of psychiatry ... -- Bryan Appleyard, Pick of the Paperbacks * Sunday Times *
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