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Challenging Psychiatry’s Reliance on the Disease Model

A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement

Digby Tantam (Middlesex University, UK)

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English
Routledge
22 August 2024
This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781032704258
ISBN 10:   103270425X
Series:   Advances in Mental Health Research
Pages:   256
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The origins of psychiatric disease theory Chapter 2 Materialism as a symptom Chapter 3 Does diagnosis always label a disease? Chapter 4 Investigating psychiatry’s preoccupation with disease Chapter 5 Why genomic medicine will not apply to psychiatry Chapter 6 Prescribing the cure Chapter 7 Neurodevelopmental disorder as a model for every mental health condition Chapter 8 Widening the neurodevelopmental model to the whole of psychiatry Chapter 9 A Possible New Future for Psychiatry

Digby Tantam studied at Oxford, Harvard, London, and the Open Universities. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society, and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine and Population, University of Sheffield; a director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling; and a visiting professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years.

Reviews for Challenging Psychiatry’s Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement

“There are few better people who have the breadth of experience, knowledge or skill to lead the debate about the relationship between disease models in neurodevelopmental psychiatry. The book will help to shape a debate that is both timely and important to address.” - Professor Raja Mukherjee, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Psychiatrist


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