Psychiatry a very short introduction - Burns, Tom (Oxford University Press, 2006)
"First published as a Very Short Introduction 2006"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Explaining what psychiatry is and what it does, this work looks at the major mental illnesses and how they are treated. It outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'