Doing psychiatry wrong : a critical and prescriptive look at a faltering profession / René J. Muller.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2007.Description: 140 pISBN:- 9780881634693 (pbk.) :
- 9780881634693 (pbk.) :
- 616.890025 MUL
- RC480.6 .M86 2007
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Includes bibliographical references.
1.Seeing through the illusion of bioilogical psychiatry -- 2.How biological psychiatry lost the mind and went brain dead -- 3.The brain cannot account for what we think, feel, and do -- 4.The lost art of psychiatric diagnosis -- 5.A blatant misdiagnosis -- 6.How psychiatry created an epidemic of misdaignosed biopolar disorder -- 7.Willing psychotic symptoms -- 8.How psychiatry does depression wrong -- 9.Saving psychiatry from the brain -- 10.Doing psychiatry right -- Epilog: A man, crippled by anxiety, who was previously misdaignosed with biopolar disorder: therapy leading to structural change.
Muller presents a revealing look at how psychiatry has failed a great majority of patients, all the while recognizing the valiant efforts made by psychiatrists who maintain their integrity and serve their patients well.