Out Of Its Mind: Psychiatry In Crisis A Call For Reform,J. Allan

Out Of Its MindPsychiatry In Crisis A Call For Reform\nAuthor(s): J. Allan Hobson, Jonathan Leonard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US, United States\nImprint: Perseus Books\nISBN-13: 9780738206851, 978-0738206851\nSynopsis\nWhile millions of patients with severe mental illnesses are neglected, those charged with caring for them are engaged in a troubling debate: Who should treat these patients-and how? On one side are psychoanalysts, on the other are pill-pushing psychiatrists. And on the fringe are neuroscientists, who are learning volumes about the brain but whose discoveries have largely been ignored. Truly, psychiatry is in [url] this important book, Harvard psychiatrist J. Allan Hobson and medical journalist Jonathan A. Leonard explore the roots of this predicament and propose, for the first time, the development of a more balanced approach to treatment-neurodynamics-that bridges the worlds of biomedicine, therapy, and neuroscience. Written with passion.