Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood

Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioral problems.Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhoodis a strong challenge to this way of thinking. Sami Timimi uses a wide variety of sources that shape our understanding of childhood problems and how to deal with them, including his personal experiences, to highlight the role of culture, beliefs, science, social hierarchy and power. He urges professionals who work with children to question their assumptions in a manner that will enable them to access a greater variety of potentially helpful therapeutic frameworks.Pathological Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhoodwill be of great interest to professionals and trainees in psychiatry and child psychiatry, social work, family therapy and other psychotherapies for children and adolescents.