Synopses & Reviews
In the last twenty years, psychiatry has changed its focus from counseling to medicating. Dr. William Glasser brings mental health back into the picture. He explains what it is and how each of us can use the new ideas in this book to work toward improving our own mental health or helping children and other family members to improve theirs.
Dr. Glasser warns of these hazards:
- diagnosed as mentally ill when you are not;
- treated for that nonexistent illness, often with harmful braindrugs such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Ritalin; and, worst of all,
- told that there is nothing you can do for yourself.
This book presents scientific proof that there is nothing wrong with your brain and that there is no pill for the happiness you need. It teaches how you can, by yourself or with your family's help, improve your own mental health at no cost and at no risk to yourself. If you or a family member has been diagnosed as mentally ill, this is the book you should read.
Synopsis
How psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved. William Glasser describes in Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health the sea change that has taken place in the treatment of mental health in the last few years. Millions of patients are now routinely being given prescriptions for a wide range of drugs including Ritalin, Prosac, Zoloft and related drugs which can be harmful to the brain. A previous generation of patients would have had a course of psychotherapy without brain-damaging chemicals. Glasser explains the wide implications of this radical change in treatment and what can be done to counter it.
About the Author
William Glasser, M.D., is a world-renowned psychiatrist who lectures widely. An author of many books, includingChoice Theory, Reality Therapy, The Quality School,and Getting Together and Staying Together,he is the president of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles.