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Humanizing Psychiatry - The Biocognitive Model (Paperback, New)
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Does psychiatry have a future?
Assailed from many directions, under constant attack for its
reliance on "a drug for all problems" and increasingly unable to
attract bright new trainees, the specialty is showing every sign of
terminal decline. The reason is simple: modern psychiatry has no
formal model of mental disorder to guide its daily practice,
teaching and research. Unfortunately, the orthodox psychiatrists
who control this most conservative profession are utterly
antagonistic to criticism. Despite the evidence, they maintain a
blind faith that "science will deliver the goods" by a biological
examination of the brain. This book argues that their faith is
entirely misplaced and is contributing to the destruction of an
essential part of civilized life, the fair and equitable treatment
of people with mental disorders. The author offers a rational model
of mental disorder within the framework of a molecular resolution
of the mind-body problem. Fully developed, this model will have
revolutionary consequences for psychiatry--and the
mentally-afflicted.
Acclaim for the writing of Niall Mclaren, M.D.
"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
"Dr. McLaren brilliantly wields the sword of philosophy to refute
the modern theories of psychiatry with an analysis that is sharp
and deadly. His own proposed novel theory could be the dawn of a
new revolution in the medicine of mental illness."
--Andrew R. Kaufman, MD, Chief Resident of Emergency Psychiatry,
Duke University Medical Center
"I found Niall McLaren's book to be an incredibly well-written and
thoughtprovoking. It is not, by any means, easy reading. It is also
not for someone who doesn't have some form of background in
understanding the various psychological theories and mental health
conditions. I think that this would make an excellent textbook for
a graduate class that allows students to question the theories that
we already have."
--Paige Lovitt for "Reader Views"
About the Author
The author is a psychiatrist of some 35 years standing. He writes
philosophy in the bush outside Darwin, northern Australia, with his
family as critics. For six years, while working in Western
Australia, he was the world's most isolated psychiatrist.
For more information please visit www.FuturePsychiatry.com
PSY018000 Psychology: Mental Illness
MED105000 Medical: Psychiatry - General
PHI015000 Philosophy: Mind & Body
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