Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession

ISBN-13: 9781138424999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Ren�. Muller

Opis

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field. This book presents a look into how psychiatry has failed a great majority of patients, recognizing the valiant efforts made by psychiatrists.

Spis treści

Preface. Seeing Through the Illusion of Biological Psychiatry. How Psychiatry Lost the Mind and Went Brain Dead. The Brain Cannot Account for What We Think, Feel, and Do. The Lost Art of Psychiatric Diagnosis. A Blatant Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia. How Psychiatry Created an Epidemic of Misdiagnosed Bipolar Disorder. Willing Psychotic Symptoms. How Psychiatry Does Depression Wrong. Saving Psychiatry from the Brain. Doing Psychiatry Right. Epilogue - A Man, Crippled by Anxiety, Who Was Previously Misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder: Therapy Leading to Structural Change.

O autorze

René J. Muller has evaluated over 3,000 psychiatric patients in the emergency room and recounted the stories told to him there in numerous articles for Psychiatric Times, the most widely read psychiatric publication in North America. In 2003, a compilation of these articles was published as Psych ER: Psychiatric Patients Come to the Emergency Room (Analytic Press, 2003).