From the Book - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for?
What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist
Part one. How modern psychiatry developed. The origins of institutional psychiatry
The discovery of the unconscious
The rise and fall of psychoanalysis
The first medical model (between the wars)
Out of the asylum - the origins of community care
Part two. The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it. Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy
Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses
Is bad behavior any of our business? Psychiatry and the law
A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life
New treatments but old dilemmas
The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry
