The Reality of Mental Illness (Paperback, Reissue)

Introduction; 1. Mental illness, psychiatry and its critics; 2. Disorders of the mind and the role of medicine in historical perspective; 3. The evidence from transcultural enquiries; 4. A consideration of the mind-body problem and its bearing on the concept of disease; 5. Medical and alternative models of mental disease; 6. Social, ethical and philosophical aspects of involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence; Notes.