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...recent book, “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation,” Yale psychiatrist Charles Barber argues that Americans have come to rely on psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well...
Fahrenkopf said this not only explains why early screening is ineffective, but also the fallacy in the current treatment system, which relies on physicians voluntarily choosing to speak with a psychiatrist...
...smile plastered on his face. Yelchin clearly has talent but is given little to work with: no amount of acting can give Charlie a sense of depth. The implausibility of Charlie’s character is matched only by the illogical leaps of the plot. After his psychiatrist prescribes him Ritalin to remedy his “concentration problem,” Charlie is struck by an ingenious idea: create his own psychiatric practice in the stalls of the boys’ bathroom. The way in which he obtains the necessary drugs—memorizing textbook symptoms, then rattling them...
...prescription flies in the face of traditional psychiatry, which prefers that patients take antipsychotic medication and ignore their voices, and warns that acknowledging them intensifies hallucinations. But according to Dr. Marius Romme, a psychiatrist and former professor at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, "Accepting voices is the one precondition to start the process of recovery." He argues that the mind uses this internal chatter to alert people to unresolved trauma: studies by Romme and others estimate that 50% of cases have experienced some form of abuse, and their voices tend to take on characteristics of their tormentors...
Says Boston Psychiatrist Henry Abraham: "We are now seeking a balance. We realize that revolving-door sex is not the answer to true love and commitment. The '60s kids brilliantly saw the problems facing us, but their solutions were the solutions of children. After all, a roll in the hay does not a sexual relationship make...