Title:
Unhinged : the trouble with psychiatry--a doctor's revelations about a profession in crisis
Author:
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
vii, 256 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781416590798
Abstract:
"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.
Language:
English
