Psychiatries’ Presumptions: A Portuguese Historic-cultural Perspective

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Psychiatries’ Presumptions: A Portuguese Historic-cultural Perspective provides an overview of the critical aspects and insights of different forms of psychiatry in view the contribution of Portuguese culture to the field, namely by such famous Portuguese authors as Fernando Pessoa. The main parts of the book include: - The natural, scientific, anthropological philosophical and transcultural implications of the Portuguese - Discoveries of some Portuguese personalities relevant to psychiatric thought - Fernando Pessoa, the early twentieth-century Portuguese poet and philosopher - Psychiatrisation of society and panopticism J.A. Zagallo-Cardoso, M.D., M. Med. Sc., Ph.D., is a professor of health psychology interested in matters of mental health and political psychology in Coimbra, Portugal, a university town since 1290. Publisher’s website: http: //sbprabooks.com/JAZagalloCardoso