Medicine over mind : mental health practice in the biomedical era /
Dena T. Smith.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
- Critical issues in health and medicine .
Includes bibliographies and index.
From meaning-making to medicalization -- Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice -- The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice -- Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice -- The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world -- Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice.