Beschreibung:
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 and Visiting Professor in the Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years.
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.
Preface