Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
By (Author) William Glasser
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperPerennial
31st May 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Health systems and services
Social counselling and advice services
616.89
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 135mm, Height 203mm, Spine 17mm
254g
Description
How psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved.
William Glasser describes in Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health the sea change that has taken place in the treatment of mental health in the last few years. Millions of patients are now routinely being given prescriptions for a wide range of drugs including Ritalin, Prosac, Zoloft and related drugs which can be harmful to the brain. A previous generation of patients would have had a course of psychotherapy without braindamaging chemicals. Glasser explains the wide implications of this radical change in treatment and what can be done to counter it.
Author Bio
William Glasser, M.D., is a world-renowned psychiatrist who lectures widely. His numerous books have sold 1.7 million copies, and he has trained thousands of counselors in his Choice Theory and Reality Therapy approaches. He is also the president of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles.
