Format:
Book
Author:
Carlat, Daniel J.
Title:
Unhinged : the trouble with psychiatry--a doctor's revelations about a profession in crisis / Daniel Carlat.
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Free Press, 2010.
Description:
vii, 256 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Subjects:
Psychiatry -- Evaluation.
Psychotropic drugs.
Psychotherapists.
Mental Disorders -- therapy.
Psychiatry -- trends.
Psychotherapy -- methods.
Psychiatrie
Psychofarmaca
Farmaceutische industrie
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Web Site:
LCCN:
2009046185
ISBN:
9781416590798 (hc)
141659079X
* 9781416596356 (ebk.)
* 1416596356 (ebk.)
Other Number:
467711089
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
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Control Number:
779914
Call Number:
616.89 C278
Course Reserves:
0
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