Sacred radical of psychiatry

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 446-453

  Clarke, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Robert Dodd Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Mental illness; Oppression; Polemic; Szasz; Witch hunts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PHILOSOPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLISM; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547160854     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01103.x     Document Type: Article

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