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**IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL,** psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms. As he did in his hard-hitting and widely read __New York Times Magazine__ article "Dr. Drug Rep," and as he continues to do in his popular watchdog newsletter, __The Carlat Psychiatry Report__, he writes with bracing honesty about how psychiatry has so largely forsaken the practice of talk therapy for the seductive—and more lucrative—practice of simply prescribing drugs, with a host of deeply troubling consequences. Psychiatrists have settled for treating symptoms rather than causes, embracing the apparent medical rigor of DSM diagnoses and prescription in place of learning the more challenging craft of therapeutic counseling, gaining only limited understanding of their patients’ lives. Talk therapy takes time, whereas the fifteen-minute "med check" allows for more patients and more insurance company reimbursement. Yet DSM diagnoses, he shows, are premised on a good deal less science

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Author

Carlat M.D., Daniel

Publisher

Free Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416596356

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine

Rating

3.86 / 5 (306 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14