Medicine Over Mind - 9780813598673

Medicine Over MindMental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era\nAuthor(s): Dena T. Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813598673, 978-0813598673\nSynopsis\nWe live in an era in which medicalizationthe process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatmentof mental health troubles has been settled for several decades. Yet little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners' experiences. Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades. This is a book about practitioners working in a medicalized field; for some practitioners this is a.