Books by James Davies

A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness.

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year - and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now 'medicalised' into illnesses that require treatment - usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients' well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing. Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.

¿Cuántas pastillas tomas al mes, a la semana, al día? Solo en Gran Bretaña, más del 20 % de los adultos ha consumido al menos una droga psiquiátrica al año. Lo que constata James Davies en su ensayo es que este imprudente aumento de la prescripción médica de fármacos psiquiátricos no ha disminuido el número y gravedad de las enfermedades mentales, sino todo lo contrario.A través de una extensa y profunda documentación, de entrevistas con expertos y de análisis detallados, el doctor James Davies ha llegado a la conclusión de que la comunidad médica está encarando mal el problema de las enfermedades mentales: en lugar de buscar el origen en el entorno y en los problemas sociales, el actual modelo médico se centra en situar el problema únicamente en el paciente y en su cerebro.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.James Davies ha estudiado Antropología Social y Salud Mental y enseña en los departamentos de Ciencias de las Vida y Psicología en la Universidad de Roehampton. Obtuvo su doctorado en antropología social y médica en la Universidad de Oxford y también es un psicoterapeuta calificado. Es cofundador del Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, que ahora es la secretaría del Grupo Parlamentario de Todos los Partidos para la Dependencia de Medicamentos Recetados.

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The endgame tends to be the neglected side of the game of go. This is strange indeed, for it also tends to be where the outcome is decided, and frequently accounts for about half the stones played.This volume, by a Japanese professional go player and a strong American amateur, seeks to rectify this situation by setting forth the basic tactics, strategies and counting techniques needed in the endgame.Everything from the smallest local tesujis to the global macroendgame is covered. With numerous examples and problems, many of them drawn from the Japanese author''s professional games. The reader is encouraged to think for himself and, by doing so, will certainly become stronger.

First collection proper from James Davies after the sequences The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit). He is editor of if p then q, former editor of the cult poetry object Matchbox,sometime collaborator with Simon Taylor as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism and is one of the organisers of Manchester-based The Other Room poetry night and website.

Submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. This book uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. It also exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it.