Psychiatry and Other Enterprises: Personal Experiences and Reflections after 57 Years in the Field of Psychiatry
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1634135725 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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"DO YOU HAVE OWNERSHIP OF YOUR BODY AND MIND?" according to Carlota Carpenter. For insight into the massive dilemma of the power of the state over an individual's moral agency, Nelson Borelli, in his book "Psychiatry and Other Enterprises" takes us along on his journey as he searches for the answers to What makes humans behave the way they do? and How did we get from the voluntary Good Samaratin talking cure of psychiatry to psychotropic drugs? From his childhood in the Ar. "A psychiatrist's Chronicle of Big Pharma's Takeover of Psychiatry" according to Mary O'Sullivan. This book reveals the extent to which the State has abetted the corruption of psychiatric medicine. It lays out in horrifying detail how Big Pharma managed to convert bad behavior into a chemical problem remedied only by other chemicals. This scam required a new vocabulary thedevelopment of which this book elegantly chronicles.This book is a tour de force; but not only as to psychiatry. As a bon. Diane Cameron said Thought provoking and compelling. A very provocative and compelling book examining our thinking about mental health and by extension how we think about healthcare and addiction.
Psychiatry's pursuit of the enterprising route as a means of survival is backfiring: psychiatry is on the brink of extinction as a medical specialty to once again become a stepchild of neurology. The possible survival or the new birth of psychiatry would need a new paradigm. A pity because in spite of its pitfalls, many of which are discussed in this book, psychiatry has some good tools for the care of people with emotional problems. A paradigm which priority and main clause would be: separation-from-the-State.. Instead psychiatry sank its head into the ground to continue to rely on State support for its survival. Organized psychiatry lost a chance to achieve solid medical identity after WWII because its leadership refused to analyze itself, to listen to its critics, and to consider a new paradigm
. Nelson Borelli, MD, is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with over half a century of experience in academic, hospital, state, military and private practice psychiatry. He is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University; Attending Physician, Emeritus, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; a
Randolph Kretchmar, mental health attorney --Reviews. Baughman, Jr., MD, fellow with the American Academy of Neurology, author of The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes ''Patients'' of Normal Children''Psychiatry and Other Enterprises is an extremely important cautionary tale, by a charming and clearly well-intended psychiatrist, in the high tradition of Thomas Szasz. With no actual measurements possible, there can be no standard for a 'normal' balance of chemicals in the brain, and therefore no scientifi