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

  • Carlat, Daniel J.
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Free Press, 2010.

Physical description

vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PP /CAR
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781416590798
  • 141659079X
  • 9781416596356
  • 1416596356