Medical Essentials from England: A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a medical practitioner of nearly 40 years, Hugh Middleton writes on the folly and shortcomings of using “illness” as a euphemism and metaphor for “madness.” His book Psychiatry Reconsidered: From Medical Treatment to Supportive Understanding was published in June of 2015.
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