A prescription for psychiatry : why we need a whole new approach to mental health and wellbeing / Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool, UK.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

vi, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Get the message right : a psychosocial model of mental health and well-being -- Understand, don't diagnose -- The drugs don't work, so offer real solutions -- Promote health and well-being -- Residential care, not medical coercion -- Teamworking -- Social and community services in local authority management -- Can we afford it? -- A manifesto for the reform of mental health and well-being services.