Digby Tantam studied at Oxford, Harvard, London, and the Open Universities. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society, and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine and Population, University of Sheffield; a director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling; and a visiting professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years.

“There are few better people who have the breadth of experience, knowledge or skill to lead the debate about the relationship between disease models in neurodevelopmental psychiatry. The book will help to shape a debate that is both timely and important to address.”- Professor Raja Mukherjee, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Psychiatrist

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The origins of psychiatric disease theoryChapter 2 Materialism as a symptomChapter 3 Does diagnosis always imply disease?Chapter 4 Investigating psychiatry’s preoccupation with diseaseChapter 5 Differential diagnosis and other approaches to mental health conditionsChapter 6 Prescribing the cureChapter 7 Neurodevelopmental disorder as a model for every mental health conditionChapter 8 Management of schizophrenia: widening the neurodevelopmental model to all mental health conditionsChapter 9 A Possible New Future for Psychiatry

Digby Tantam studied at Oxford, Harvard, London, and the Open Universities. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society, and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine and Population, University of Sheffield; a director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling; and a visiting professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years.

“There are few better people who have the breadth of experience, knowledge or skill to lead the debate about the relationship between disease models in neurodevelopmental psychiatry. The book will help to shape a debate that is both timely and important to address.”- Professor Raja Mukherjee, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Psychiatrist

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The origins of psychiatric disease theoryChapter 2 Materialism as a symptomChapter 3 Does diagnosis always imply disease?Chapter 4 Investigating psychiatry’s preoccupation with diseaseChapter 5 Differential diagnosis and other approaches to mental health conditionsChapter 6 Prescribing the cureChapter 7 Neurodevelopmental disorder as a model for every mental health conditionChapter 8 Management of schizophrenia: widening the neurodevelopmental model to all mental health conditionsChapter 9 A Possible New Future for Psychiatry