Our Psychiatric Future, by Nikolas Rose

A scholarly critique of modern psychiatry falls short of describing what psychiatrists actually do, says Tom Burns

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February 21, 2019

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February 21, 2019

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Futile or helpful?: Nikolas Rose argues that categories of diagnosis in psychiatry have not ‘proved particularly helpful’

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