Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement by Tantam, Digby

Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032704258)

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Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement by Tantam, Digby

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

$200.00
Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement by Tantam, Digby

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

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Digby Tantam
ISBN-10: 103270425X
ISBN-13: 9781032704258
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Digby Tantam
By Digby Tantam
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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.

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