Psychobattery: A Chronicle of Psychotherapeutic Abuse - Rilegato

Spitzer, Therese; Spitzer, Ralph

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0896030148 ISBN 13: 9780896030145

Casa editrice: Humana Pr Inc, 1980

Riassunto

It is an honour for me to be asked to contribute a foreword to the book of my friends Therese and Ralph Spitzer. I got to know them during an assignment as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and I have shared to the full the distress that comes to all those who have to watch people that they love affected by mental illness in one form or another. I have been an orientalist for only half my life; for the first half I was a biochemist, embryologist, and experimental morphologist. "When I, a young man, was called to the bar" (as Gilbert & Sullivan have it), in other words, when in the early twenties I was starting life as a research biochemist, I was greatly attracted to the biochemistry of mental disease. I followed the lectures for the Diploma in Psychological Medicine, and worked at the Fulbourn Mental Hospital near Cambridge on the creatinine metabolism in catatonic patients suffering from what we used to call in those days dementia praecox. I published one paper (with T. J. McCarthy), but my hopes soon faded, and when I read an excellent review on the subject which covered much literature, and ended by saying that biochemists had grown tired of "fishing in distilled water for the causes of mental disease," I realised that I had better find something more worthwhile. Eggs and embryos were the answer, and very worthwhile they were.

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Contenuti

What Psychobattery is About.- Savage Encounter.- Primal Scream.- The Mystery of Lithium.- The Biology of Mental Illness.- Facing Reality.- Treatment by Assault.- The Identity Crisis in Psychiatry.- Psychotherapy is Forever.- Treatment by Incarceration.- The Family is the Patient.- The Identified Patient.- Anorexia Nervosa.- Suicide.- Warning: May be Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed.- Erewhon Revisited, A Psychoparable.

Product Description

Book by Spitzer Therese Spitzer Ralph

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Humana Pr Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0896030148
• ISBN 13: 9780896030145
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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