Psychiatry works: that is the Good News that this book proclaims. “For the first time in its long and notorious history, psychiatry can offer scientific, humane and effective treatments to those suffering from mental illness.”For the most part Jeffrey Lieberman, a veteran American psychiatrist, makes the case well, though he sometimes gets bogged down in the arcane politics of his profession, and, more seriously, he evades some of the abiding mysteries of mental illness. “The modern psychiatrist now possesses the tools to lead any person out of a maze of mental chaos into a place of clarity, care and recovery,” he assures us. If so, why do the best hospitals still contain people who think they’re Napoleon? Why do so many so people live in fear of being attack
07 May 2015, The Tablet
Shrinks: the untold story of psychiatry
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