Minds, Madness And Medicine | Lucy Johnstone, David Nutt, David Healy

Philosophy For Our Times

English - November 27, 2018 10:38 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Deaths from heart disease have fallen by almost two thirds since the 1960s, yet outcomes for those with mental illness have not improved for decades. Is this because we have the wrong categories and the wrong diagnoses? Might neuroscience enable more precise descriptions and more effective treatment? Or is it a mistake to think that biological accounts of mental illness will ever provide the answers? Users and Abusers of Psychiatry author Lucy Johnstone, psychiatrist David Nutt and author of The Antidepressant Era David Healy consider plausible alternatives to diagnosis.

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