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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
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
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
The long-awaited final installment of the Biocognitive Model
Series
"Humanizing Psychiatists" is the third of a series directed at
developing the Biocognitive Model of Psychiatry as the replacement
for the three nineteenth century models of mental disorder,
psychoanalysis, behaviorism and biological psychiatry. In this
volume, the author continues to explore the logical status of
theories used in psychiatry. He shows that Dennett's functionalism
and Searle's biological naturalism cannot be used as the basis for
a theory for biological psychiatry. He argues that phenomenology is
a valuable technique but can never form a genuine theory. in
addition, he shows how orthodox psychiatry uses its publishing
industry to suppress criticism of itself, which is a gross breach
of scientific ethics. He then shows how his Biocognitive Model of
Mind can be applied to clinical practice with dramatic results.
Praise for Niall McLaren's Biocognitive Model of Mind
"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
About the Author
Niall McLaren, M.D. is a psychiatrist practicing in Darwin, in the
far north of Australia. He has long had an interest in the
philosophical and logical status of theories used in psychiatry.His
work is radical in the extreme but he sees no option if psychiatry
is to move beyond its present status as an ideology and finally
into the realm of the sciences.
For more information please visit www.NiallMcLaren.com
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