Muller, René J.

Doing psychiatry wrong : a critical and prescriptive look at a faltering profession / René J. Muller. - London : Routledge, 2007. - 140 p.

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.

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Psychiatric emergencies.
Psychiatric errors.
Biological psychiatry.
Health and Wellbeing.
Clinical & internal medicine
Mental health law
Psychotherapy
Psychiatry

RC480.6 / .M86 2007

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