Trouble in mind  -  Dean F. MacKinnon

an unorthodox introduction to psychiatry

KORTE INHOUD

Orthodox psychiatric texts are often rich in facts, but thin in concept. Depression may be defined as a dysfunction of mood, but of what use is a mood? How can anxiety be both symptom and adaptation to stress? What links the disparate disabilities of perception and reasoning in schizophrenia? Why does the same situation push one person into drink, drugs, danger, or despair and bounce harmlessly off another?
Trouble in Mind is unorthodox because it models adaptive mental function along with mental illness to ...
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2011 Uitgever: Johns Hopkins University Press 323 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0801898064 ISBN-13: 9780801898068