- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd (16 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857753143
- ISBN-13: 978-1857753141
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,081,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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British Journal of Psychiatry
...superficial understanding of the basic phenomena of psychiatric illness and his ignorance... of contemporary biological and psychological research….
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..speculative, rambling, less than precise, minimally edited effort that meanders among hypotheses, with too many errors and occasional psychosocial invective.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Challenging reappraisal of mental illness and its treatment,
By james@jarwillis.fsnet.co.uk (Winchester, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Psychiatry and the Human Condition (Paperback)
This book is a radical and urgently-needed re-appraisal of psychiatric illnesses and their treatments in the light of recent advances across a wide range of scientific research. It brings together clinical medicine, psycho-pharmacology, evolutionary biology, neurophysiology, philosophy, with extraordinary eclecticism and authority. Charlton illustrates the different categories of psychiatric conditions with appealing human stories and thoughout he writes with precision, clarity and unblinking scientific rigor. The book is fascinating (not least because psychiatric illness is so much a part of the human condition), challenging, stimulating and exciting. Exciting because in the end it is so optimistic. It is an astonishing achievement.The classification of psychiatric disease has long been a notorious muddle and so has the classification of psychotropic medication. Can it really be a coincidence that so many anti-depressants are powerful pain-killers? Or that Opium was once the drug of choice for 'melancholia'? Our society is deeply ambivalent about mental illness and about the use of mind-altering drugs. No area of medicine is so dogged by pseudo-science and mumbo-jumbo. It is a delight to see a book on this subject (which is so desperately in need of responsible new ideas) so soundly-based and so triumphantly-successful. It will appeal to a very wide range of readers, professional and lay alike, and is likely to become the subject of discussion and controversy. Its subject is human happiness and fulfilment, and how to make the best use of our lives. No subject is more important. It deserves to become one of the classics of its kind.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Psychological Medicine Review - 2002,
By editor-theorist (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Psychiatry and the Human Condition (Paperback)
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"It is a pleasure to review a book that tries to explain and integrate psychiatric concepts within an appealing theoretical context. (...) In summary, this book sets itself an almost impossible task, but succeeds to a greater extent than one might have predicted." Review in Psychological Medicine , 2002.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Its a great book if your open minded,
By A Customer
This review is from: Psychiatry and the Human Condition (Paperback)
I think pretty much all of the criticism this book as recieved must have come from psychiatrists who cant be bothered to learn a new classification system or didn't want to put the time in to understand what Bruce Chralton is actually saying.I should be honest and admit Chrlton is actually my lecturer, but thats besides the point and in fact helps me get my point across. (I've kept myself anonymous in case he happens to read this!) At first view many of Charltons ideas seem strange just because they're so far removed from everything we've been told before. My initial reaction when presented with them was normally 'thats a load of rubbish'. But then you go out and review the literature and you find everything he says fits. Then you just have to swallow your pride and admit he was right...again. This book presents many of his most intruiging hypotheses in a manner no less lucid and understandable than his lectures. One review cites Charltons ignorance of the subject, anyone who has read Charltons publications, including this book, must surely see that this is not the case. In summary, approached with an open mind, this book could enlighten you to the many issues in the tangled field of psychopathology and provide an optomistic vision for the future (even if you don't agree with everything he says).
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