TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burns,Tom
TI  - Our necessary shadow: the nature and meaning of psychiatry
SN  - 9780241954430
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Mental health
KW  - History
N1  - Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2013; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In this deeply thoughtful, descriptive and sympathetic book, Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry. What he reveals is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. The drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore or decide to leave. It is our necessary shadow
ER  -