DOCTORING THE MIND: WHY PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENTS FAIL
Book ID/图书代码： 03640911B45188
English Summary/英文概要： Why is the Western world’s treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK?
In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall reveals the shocking truths behind the system of mental health care in the West. With a heavy dependence on pills and the profit they bring, psychiatry has been relying on myths and misunderstandings of madness for too long, and builds on methods which can often hinder rather than help the patient.
Bentall argues passionately for a new future of mental health, one that considers the patient as an individual and redefines our understanding and treatment of madness for the twenty-first century.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为什么西方的精神病治疗如此糟糕？
《医治心病》的作者理查德•本托尔，一位杰出的临床心理学家，揭穿了西方精神治疗系统背后的真相。精神医学一味地倚重药物，赚取了巨额财富，但它所依赖的理论基础却是对疯癫的错误理解和解释；这些只会对真正的康复产生阻碍，而不会帮助到那些弱势的人们。
本托尔倡导一种关注个人独特性的新型治疗取向，呼吁重新定义精神病概念，筹划21世纪的精神康复模式。
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Bentall is one of psychiatry’s most eloquent enemies . . . the drugs don’t work---Sunday Times
It is the very balance of his approach that drives his opponents crazy . . . Passionate . . . a brave book---Observer
Bentall pulls no punches . . . his credentials ensure that his punches carry weight ---Guardian
Paints a stark picture of a mental health system riddled with corruption and incompetence ---The Times
Wonderful. Everyone personally or professionally concerned with mental health should read this . . . I dearly wish it could be put into the hands of the politicians and their advisors who make decisions about the life and rights of others---Hilary Mantel
At a time when dialogue in the presence of other human beings is becoming less and less available, this brave book gives a sense of why this could be disastrous---Salley Vickers, Observer
About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•P•本托尔（Richard P. Bentall，1956—）是全球著名的临床心理学家，现为英国威尔士班戈大学资深教授。他在精神疾病的分类和治疗（特别是偏执妄想、幻听、思维障碍等症状的治疗）方面卓有建树，并于1989年获得英国心理学会颁发的“梅•戴维森奖”，这是英国临床心理学领域的最高荣誉。他2003年出版的《解读疯癫》（Madness Explained）一书荣获2004年度英国心理学会图书奖。
Born in Sheffield, Richard Bentall was an undergraduate at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, the only university that would take him following his undistinguished performance at Uppingham School in Rutland and High Storrs School in Sheffield. He remained at Bangor to take a PhD in experimental psychology before obtaining a qualification in clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool. He later obtained an MA in philosophy applied to health care from University College Swansea. After a brief period as a National Health Service forensic clinical psychologist, he returned to the University of Liverpool as a lecturer, where he was eventually appointed Professor of Clinical Psychology. In 1999 he moved to a Chair in Experimental Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester. In 1989 he received the British Psychological Society’s May Davidson Award for his contribution to the field of clinical psychology. Apart from his interests in severe mental illness, Richard Bentall also studies differences between human and animal learning mechanisms and has carried out research into the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. He lives with his partner, Aisling (also a psychologist) and their twin children Fintan and Keeva.
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