Madness cracked / / Mick Power
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Power Mick
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| Titolo: |
Madness cracked / / Mick Power
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.89 |
| Soggetto topico: | Clinical psychology |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Preface; Contents; 1. A Brief History of Madness; 2. Diagnosis and Classification; 3. The Current Approach; 4. Disorders of Biological Drives; 5. Disorders of Social Drives; 6. Disorders of Emotions; 7. Disorders of Cognition; 8. Overview and Implications; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The recent publication of a new edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical manual (DSM-5) highlighted the two contrary viewpoints that exist within the field of mental health. There are those who value such classification systems, seeing each revision of the DSM as a fine-tuning exercise, and there are those who are strongly opposed, seeing such exercises as fundamentally flawed. 'Madness Cracked' provides a fascinating introduction to the history of psychiatry and clinical psychology, looking at how these areas have attempted to classify the various problems and disorders that their p |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Madness cracked |
| ISBN: | 0-19-180782-6 |
| 0-19-100887-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816915603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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