ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1975, this book examines the various types of psychological disturbance, shows how they have come to be regarded as illnesses, and examines critically the notion of psychiatric diagnosis. It describes how clinical psychology has grown up within psychiatry to support a conceptual system antithetical to it.

The author goes on to describe the theories and therapies that do not adhere particularly to the notion of mental illness. Today it can be enjoyed in its historical perspective.

chapter |2 pages

Editor’s Introduction

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part One|1 pages

The medical approach to psychological problems

chapter 1|20 pages

Classification in psychiatry

chapter 2|12 pages

Problems of classification

chapter 3|10 pages

The concept of mentalillness

chapter 4|20 pages

The nature of clinical psychology

part Two|1 pages

Psychosocial approaches to psychiatric disorders

chapter 5|15 pages

Man and his dynamic unconscious

chapter 6|13 pages

Man and his inner self

chapter 7|14 pages

Man and his behaviour

chapter 8|8 pages

Man and his conceptual system

chapter |2 pages

Conclusions