Humanizing Psychiatry

Does psychiatry have a future?Assailed from many directions, under constant attack for its reliance on 'a drug for all problems' and increasingly unableto 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 utterlyantagonistic 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 plausiblemechanism for many forms of human distress. It is an important work thatdeserves 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 moderntheories of psychiatry with an analysis that is sharp and deadly. His own proposednovel theory could be the dawn of a new revolution in the medicine ofmental 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 someonewho doesn’t have some form of background in understanding the variouspsychological theories and mental health conditions. I think that this wouldmake an excellent textbook for a graduate class that allows students toquestion the theories that we already have.'--Paige Lovitt for Reader ViewsAbout the AuthorThe author is a psychiatrist of some 35 years standing. He writes philosophyin the bush outside Darwin, northern Australia, with his family as critics. Forsix years, while working in Western Australia, he was the world’s most isolatedpsychiatrist.For more information please visit www.FuturePsychiatry.comPSY018000 Psychology : Mental IllnessMED105000 Medical : Psychiatry - GeneralPHI015000 Philosophy : Mind & Body