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...Perhaps no one has released so creative, so audacious, and, ultimately, so problematic a critique of contemporary society’s love affair with psychiatric medication as that offered by Dr. Elio Frattaroli in his new book “Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World.” Frattaroli, a practicing psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, took his A.B. from Harvard in English Literature before going to medical school. On Tuesday, February 19, Frattaroli was in Cambridge and delivered a discussion...
...title may suggest, Frattaroli’s book seeks to restore the metaphysical soul as the primary target of therapy in what he sees as an increasingly physicalist psychiatric profession. Frattaroli argues that psychiatrists—and in particularly those trained in the past 15 years—have (to the detriment of their patients) progressively blurred the line between mind/soul and brain. The result has been that “quick-fix” physical and chemical solutions, such as SSRI’s, have come into vogue, while the more involved and more important process of healing...
...this only begs the question: What, exactly, is the soul, as Frattaroli understands it? Moreover, how is it distinct from the physical brain? In an interview included in the book’s press release, Frattaroli addresses these questions, saying, “The body and brain belong to the domain of outer knowledge. We know about them by seeing, touching and measuring them. Mind, spirit, and soul belong to the domain of inner knowledge. We know about them only through our personal conscious experience...
...Certainly, Frattaroli constructs a compelling case against the use of Prozac as a easy way out; it is undoubtedly essential to cut depression out at its roots rather than merely making its symptoms disappear temporarily. But in order to “heal” mental disorders at their root rather than their branches, do we really need a concept as abstract—and as contradictory to the belief of most contemporary neuroscientists—as a completely immaterial soul...
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