Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? xi
1 What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist 1
Part 1 How modern psychiatry developed
2 The origins of institutional psychiatry 33
3 The discovery of the unconscious 54
4 The rise and fall of psychoanalysis 69
5 The first medical model (between the wars) 98
6 The impact of war 116
7 Out of the asylum - the origins of community care 138
Part 2 The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it
8 Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy 161
9 Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses 184
10 Is bad behaviour any of our business? Psychiatry and the law 209
11 A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life 224
12 New treatments but old dilemmas 251
13 The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry 274
Epilogue 290
Glossary 295
Sources and further reading 306
Index 311