Understanding Troubled Minds

A Guide to Mental Illness and Its Treatment

FULLY REVISED SECOND EDITION

Sidney Bloch

Understanding Troubled Minds serves as a practical guide to mental illness and its treatment.

Opinion

‘A clear and invaluable account of mental illness in all its manifestations . . . Understanding Troubled Minds reveals a warm appreciation of the vagaries of human nature.’
Anne Deveson, Journalist, broadcaster and author of Tell Me I’m Here

‘. . . this is a fine book. It can be read with profit by anyone with an interest in such matters, especially family members of those affected by troubled minds, and it certainly could prove helpful to the affected themselves. Congratulations to the authors. Buy it.’
—Richard Ball, Chiron , 1998

About this Title

Many of us take our mental health for granted. But when confronted by mental illness in family members, friends or ourselves, even the most competent can become overwhelmed.

Understanding Troubled Minds guides us calmly and authoritatively through the full range of mental illnesses and their treatment, and includes chapters dealing specifically with mental illnesses afflicting women, children and the elderly. It stresses the value of partnerships between psychiatrists, patients and their families.

Balanced, humanistic and thoroughly readable, this fully revised edition of Understanding Troubled Minds serves as a practical guide to mental illness and its treatment.

About the Author

Sidney Bloch is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Psychiatrist at St Vincent’s Hospital. He was Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry for a decade and Chief Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry for thirteen years. His thirteen books, many of which have been translated, deal with the psychotherapies and medical ethics.

Reviews

‘…provides calm and authoritative guidance through the full range of mental illnesses and their treatment …’ (THE AGE, 06/06/2011) Read full review

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