Book review
Book Review of Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry by Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann (Eds)
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Correspondence: Paul Hammersley paul.hammersley@manchester.ac.uk
Programme Director for Post Graduate Studies in CBT for Psychosis, COPE Initiative, University of Manchester, UK
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008, 3:18 doi:10.1186/1747-5341-3-18
Published: 23 July 2008Abstract
Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann's Alternatives beyond Psychiatry offers a comprehensive and up to date account of the alternatives to mainstream psychiatry that are being developed by service consumers and survivors across the world. As psychiatry moves into a new age less dominated by a biomedical paradigm many of the approaches described in this book may be adopted by mainstream health services. This is a hugely readable and accessible book for professionals and consumers alike.