Our necessary shadow: the nature and meaning of psychiatry

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Our Necessary Shadow is the first attempt in a generation to explain the whole subject of psychiatry, from the UK's leading expert, Tom Burns A lot is written about psychiatry and the things it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need?

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