Unhinged : the trouble with psychiatry--a doctor's revelations about a profession in crisis / Daniel Carlat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlat, Daniel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Evaluation.

Psychiatry.

Psychotropic drugs.

Psychotherapists.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Psychiatry--trends.

Psychotherapy--methods.

Evaluation.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Psychiatry--trends.

Psychotherapy--methods.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Free Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2010.

Summary:

"IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms. As he did in his hard-hitting and widely read New York Times Magazine article "Dr. Drug Rep," and as he continues to do in his popular watchdog newsletter, The Carlat Psychiatry Report, he writes with bracing honesty about how psychiatry has so largely forsaken the practice of talk therapy for the seductive?and more lucrative?practice of simply prescribing drugs, with a host of deeply troubling consequences" --Cover, p. 2.

Contents:

The trouble with psychiatry

On becoming a psychiatrist

The great divide

The bible of psychiatry

How medications became the new therapy

How companies sell psychiatrists on their drugs

The hired guns

A frenzy of diagnosis

The seductions of technology

The missing skill

Solutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781416590798

141659079X

9781416596356

1416596356

OCLC:

467711089

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