Understanding Troubled Minds: A Guide to Mental Illness and its Treatment (Australian Lives Series)

Bloch, Sidney,Singh, Bruce S.

ISBN 10: 0522846424 / ISBN 13: 9780522846423

Verlag: Melbourne Univ Pr, 1997

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Understanding Troubled Minds: A Guide to Mental Illness and its Treatment (Australian Lives Series)
• Verlag: Melbourne Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0522846424
• ISBN-13: 9780522846423
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Understanding Troubled Minds guides us calmly and authoritatively through the full range of mental illnesses and their treatment. It deals with patterns of illness in women, children, adolescents and the elderly. It stresses the value of partnership among psychiatrists, patients and their families. And it places this knowledge within the framework of modern psychiatry from the history of the discipline to just what it is that psychiatrists and other health-professionals do. Sidney Bloch, an eminent academic psychiatrist of many years' clinical experience, highlights the place of hope and optimism, pointing to the great strides being made in the understanding and treatment of mental illness. Acknowledging the complexity of human nature, Professor Bloch weaves stories of real people and the insights of many writers and artists throughout the text. Balanced, humanistic and thoroughly readable, this fully revised edition of Understanding Troubled Minds serves as a practical guide to mental illness and its treatment.

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Biography165

Sidney Bloch is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Psychiatrist at St Vincent s Hospital in Melbourne. He was Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry for a decade and Chief Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry for thirteen years (a record tenure in the history of the Journal). His 14 books, many of which have been translated, deal with the psychotherapies, psycho-oncology and medical ethics. Understanding Troubled Minds- A Guide to Mental Illness and its Treatment won the SANE Book of the Year Award in 2012. He was awarded a Citation by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2004 for his academic contribution to psychiatry. He is also a Fellow of that College as well as a Fellow of the British Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has had Visiting Professorships in the Chinese University Of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia University.