by Tom Burns · Allen Lane · tapa dura · ISBN 9781846144653
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«Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry» is Tom Burns's popular science essay on psychiatry, published by Allen Lane in hardback.
Tom Burns reviews the history of psychiatry and the points of agreement and disagreement in the treatment of mental illness. Burns, professor of social psychiatry at Oxford, argues that these illnesses are part of the human condition and that psychiatry, despite its imperfections, is the best attempt to alleviate that suffering.
The first edition was published on 6 June 2013, with 384 pages in English.
Aimed at general readers interested in popular science on mental health, psychology and the history of psychiatry.
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Tom Burns FBA was an English sociologist, author and founder of the Sociology department at Edinburgh University.
