Psychobattery

A Chronicle of Psychotherapeutic Abuse

Therese Spitzer, Ralph Spitzer (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2011
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-4612-5999-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.10.2011
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 236 p.
Verlagsort	Totowa, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-4612-5999-1 / 1461259991
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-5999-2 / 9781461259992
Zustand	Neuware