Originally published in 1973, this book is about people and
psychiatry. About people who rejected psychiatry as it was
generally practised at the time, people who sought for and found
alternative ways of caring for and healing one another. The author,
who had been active in radical alternatives to psychiatry for some
time, offers us a programme based not on drugs, repression and a
'questionable' expertise, but on human caring, greater awareness of
the body, deeper communication between persons and a willingness to
let the emotions flow. It is a challenging alternative which came
at a time when the viability of scientific, theoretical and
chemical approaches to distress were being questioned at all levels
of society. This alternative includes the new direct methods of
healing (making whole) such as Encounter, Gestalt, Bioenergetics,
Psychofantasy - methods that do not do things to people but allow
them to feel their way into change through experiment, flow and
choice. The main focus of the book is People, not Psychiatry (PNP),
the network set up by the author in 1969. PNP is open to all, and
people in it help one another in times of stress and crisis, if
they are asked to and when they are needed. One of the main assets
of these networks is that they are an alternative and they are
there. The book tells the story of PNP's birth and growth. It is a
personal story, a moving story, a story about people. In addition,
the book contains some lively theoretical discussion, both simple
and clear, in the course of which the author tentatively offers his
own theory of neurosis - that many people become victims of the
primitive logic patterns laid down in infancy, patterns that become
reinforced through fear and habit and have to be dissolved or
replaced if we are to enjoy a full, healthy, free-flowing life. The
book is directed at doctors, patients, consultants, nurses,
psychologists, social workers, therapists, in fact anyone involved
in any way in the field of psychiatry. It is also offered to all
those whom psychiatry touches, that it to say - everyone.
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