Better Than Well?: The Most Important Question Facing Psychiatry - Tapa blanda

Fitzgerald, Paul J.

 
9781491715413: Better Than Well?: The Most Important Question Facing Psychiatry
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ISBN 10: 1491715413 ISBN 13: 9781491715413
Editorial: iUniverse, 2013

Sinopsis

Is it possible, through use of existing psychiatric medications or talk therapy, to treat someone who has become slightly to severely mentally ill, and not only eliminate symptoms of his illness but also leave him "better than well" This is a question with which eminent American psychiatrist, Peter Kramer, grappled in his landmark 1993 book, Listening to Prozac. Kramer concluded, based largely on responses of his own patients to the then relatively new antidepressant Prozac, that "better than well" may indeed be attainable in some persons. Not surprisingly, this is a controversial conclusion that has been met with a large degree of skepticism, including in a number of books that have since appeared. The current book explores this issue in detail, including analysis of cutting edge neuroscience and psychiatric research, concluding that "better than well" may indeed be attainable in some individuals. If so, this phenomenon may have broad reaching implications for medicine and society in general.

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Reseña del editor

Is it possible, through use of existing psychiatric medications or talk therapy, to treat someone who has become slightly to severely mentally ill, and not only eliminate symptoms of his illness but also leave him "better than well"? This is a question with which eminent American psychiatrist, Peter Kramer, grappled in his landmark 1993 book, Listening to Prozac. Kramer concluded, based largely on responses of his own patients to the then relatively new antidepressant Prozac, that "better than well" may indeed be attainable in some persons. Not surprisingly, this is a controversial conclusion that has been met with a large degree of skepticism, including in a number of books that have since appeared. The current book explores this issue in detail, including analysis of cutting edge neuroscience and psychiatric research, concluding that "better than well" may indeed be attainable in some individuals. If so, this phenomenon may have broad reaching implications for medicine and society in general.

Biografía del autor

Paul Fitzgerald has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. For nearly five years, he was a behavioral neuroscience postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States, studying mouse models of mental illness. Paul is currently a behavioral neuroscientist at Texas A&M University.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1491715413
ISBN 13 
9781491715413
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Número de páginas
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