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Author Ellard, John.

Title The anatomy of mirages : a psychiatrist reflects on life and the mind / John Ellard
Published Kensington, N.S.W. : UNSW Press, 1994

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 W'PONDS  150.1 Ell/Aom  AVAILABLE
Description 292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents Addiction: What it Is and What to Do About it -- Attention Deficit Disorder -- The Anatomy of Mirages -- A Note on Burnout -- Community Mental Health as a Myth -- Couples and Families -- Depression -- The Drug Offensive -- Growing Old -- Life After Death -- New White Elephants for Old Sacred Cows -- Personality Disorder -- Phobias -- Psychiatry as a Means of Social Control -- Psychopathy and Success -- Psychotherapy -- The Psychopathology of Sin -- Sexual Intercourse Between Doctors and Patients -- Stress -- Strong Beliefs and Delusions -- Touching in Psychotherapy -- The Trouble With Doctors -- The Recognition and Management of Werewolves
Summary "In one way, this collection of short pieces is widely diverse ranging from depression to fads in psychiatry, from sexual intercourse between doctors and patients to the phenomenon of real-life werewolves. Yet, pulling together all these subject is a common thread - the integration of the purely 'scientific' with something less tangible: the complex and unsolvable mysteries of human behaviour and of the universe." ""There is a raft of knowledge afloat in a vast and troubled sea of ignorance and superstition: it is stronger than it was" writes Ellard in the book's introduction." ""Our best hope for progress in any respect is to keep asking questions so that the answers we receive will enable us to ask better questions next time around."" "Throughout the book there is a gentle but relentless dismantling of accepted nostrums. Always clear-sighted and compassionate he makes us re-look at medicine, psychiatry and the human mind itself and urges us to ask our own questions."--BOOK JACKET
Notes CIP confirmed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Brain.
Human behavior.
Life -- Psychological aspects.
Mind and body.
Psychiatry -- Miscellanea.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatry.
Mental Disorders -- psychology.
Genre/Form Essays.
Trivia and miscellanea.
LC no. 95168380
ISBN 0868400149