Richard P Bentall

A revised edition of Madness Explained, Richard Bentall's groundbreaking classic on mental illness In Madness Explained, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there a clear dividing line between who is sane and who is insane? For this revised edition, he adds new material drawing on the recent advances in molecular genetics, new studies of the role of environment in psychosis, and important discoveries on early symptoms preceding illness, among other important developments in our understanding.'Madness Explained is a substantial, yet highly accessible work. Full of insight and humanity, it deserves a wide readership.' Sunday Times 'Will give readers a glimpse both of answers to their own problems, and to questions about how the mind works' Independent Magazine Richard P. Bentall holds a Chair in Experimental Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester. In 1989 he received the British Psychological Society's May Davidson Award for his contribution to the field of Clinical Psychology.

Det er en bok som retter seg mot mennesker som sliter med psykosesymptomer, men er også svært nyttig lesestoff for fagfolk.Plages du av stemmer eller bilder som andre ikke ser eller hører? Tror du at andre mennesker prøver å skade deg eller kontrollere deg? Føler du at det er noe merkelig som pågår rundt deg som du ikke kan forklare, eller at det skjer ting med deg som har en spesiell mening? Er du redd for at andre kan lese tankene dine eller at spesielle tanker blir plantet i deg? Denne boken gir deg en steg-for-steg hjelp til å forstå dine problemer, den hjelper deg til positive forandringer og bidrar til bedring. Du får hjelp til å forstå hvorfor og hvordan slike problemer utvikler seg, og hva som vedlikeholder dem. Gjennom spørsmål og oppgaveark får du hjelp til å identifisere og se mønsteret i erfaringene dine. Du lærer hvordan du kan forandre tanker, følelser og atferd.Boken er skrevet av internasjonalt anerkjente fagpersoner innenfor psykosefeltet og kognitiv terapi. Den er oversatt fra engelsk av Bjørn Inge Follevaag og faglig tilrettelagt av psykologspesialist Marit Grande, TIPS Sør-Øst, Oslo Universitetssykehus, Ullevål og psykiater Lars Linderoth, Rehabiliteringspoliklinikken, Bærum DPS.

Traditionell västerländsk psykiatri vilar på en medicinsk modell. Den utgår ifrån att psykos är en biologisk hjärnsjukdom, vars viktigaste behandling är psykofarmaka. I denna bok visar författaren med stöd av omfattande dokumentation från aktuell forskning att modellen är en myt. Den påstådda nyttan för patienterna har i realiteten varit mycket begränsad. Läkemedelsindustrin har försett psykiatrin med vilseledande information om de dyra preparatens förträfflighet. Bentall argumnenterar för en annan psykosvård - en vård som baseras på god evidens. Den betraktar varje patient som en unik individ och bygger på att det är varma, hållbara relationer som leder till läkning och återhämtning. Patienterna själva bör också få större ansvar för och delaktighet i sin egen vård. Richard P. Bentall är född 1956 i Sheffield, England. Han verkar som professor i klinisk psykologi vid universitetet i Bengor, Wales. Bland hans tidigare skrifter märks "Madness explained: Psychosis and human nature" (Penguin, 2003) och "Galenskapens Gåta" /Dualis, 2005) med John Read och Loren Mosher

Why is the Western world's treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK? In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall reveals the shocking truths behind the system of mental health care in the West. With a heavy dependence on pills and the profit they bring, psychiatry has been relying on myths and misunderstandings of madness for too long, and builds on methods which can often hinder rather than help the patient. Bentall argues passionately for a new future of mental health, one that considers the patient as an individual and redefines our understanding and treatment of madness for the twenty-first century.

Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the "Prozac Age" and believed we had moved far beyond the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organization that suggests that people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, Doctoring the Mind asks the question: how good are our mental healthcare services, really? Richard P. Bentall picks apart the science that underlies our current psychiatric practice. He puts the patient back at the heart of treatment for mental illness, making the case that a good relationship between patients and their doctors is the most important indicator of whether someone will recover.Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this is a book set to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century.

A revised edition of Madness Explained, Richard Bentall's groundbreaking classic on mental illness In Madness Explained, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there a clear dividing line between who is sane and who is insane? For this revised edition, he adds new material drawing on the recent advances in molecular genetics, new studies of the role of environment in psychosis, and important discoveries on early symptoms preceding illness, among other important developments in our understanding.'Madness Explained is a substantial, yet highly accessible work. Full of insight and humanity, it deserves a wide readership.' Sunday Times 'Will give readers a glimpse both of answers to their own problems, and to questions about how the mind works' Independent Magazine Richard P. Bentall holds a Chair in Experimental Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester. In 1989 he received the British Psychological Society's May Davidson Award for his contribution to the field of Clinical Psychology.