An application of the philosophy of science to psychiatry
Although it's been 140 years since Maudley's groundbreaking
treatise, modern psychiatry is in a state of intellectual collapse.
No psychiatrist practicing today can point to a universally agreed
model of mental disorder which explains the common observations of
mental disorder, dictates a research program and ordains a form of
management.
This book, the result of thirty years research in the philosophy
of science, takes each of the major theories in psychiatry and
demonstrates conclusively that it is so flawed as to be beyond
salvation. It goes further, in that the author outlines a model of
mental function which both satisfies the essential requirements of
any scientific model, and shows how the phenomena of mental
disorder can be described in a parsimonious dualist model which
leads directly to a humanist form of management of the most
widespread form of disability in the world today.
"This book is a tour de force. It demonstrates a tremendous amount
of erudition, intelligence and application in the writer. It
advances an interesting and plausible mechanism for many forms of
human distress. It is an important work that deserves to take its
place among the classics in books about psychiatry." -Robert Rich,
PhD, AnxietyAndDepression-Help.com
About the Author
Niall McLaren has been an M.D. and practicing psychiatrist since
1977. Since then, he has undertaken a far-reaching research
program, some of which has previously been published. For six
years, while working in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia,
he was the world's most isolated psychiatrist. He is married with
two children and lives in a tropical house hidden in the bush near
Darwin, Australia.
From Future Psychiatry Press www.FuturePsychiatry.com
an imprint of Loving Healing Press
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