Doing Psychiatry Wrong

Doing Psychiatry Wrong tells the story of how one clinician came to see that biological psychiatry fails as a way of understanding and challenging mental illness. The insistence that mental disorders are caused by a primary malfunction of the brain - the founding idea of biological psychiatry - undermines powers traditionally granted to the mind. Lost is the idea that each of us constructs our own world, empowered and limited by the constant partners of biological inheritance and circumstance, as we ply our freedom in the pursuit of our lives. Suggestions are made for how the troubled profession of psychiatry might embrace these notions to better serve its patients. Doing Psychiatry Wrong is a call to arms with clear implications for public policy. Book jacket.