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