healing the soul instead of medicating the brain

[bluegreen17]

healing the soul-not medicating the brain-is the root meaning and purpose of psychiatry...[through] a relationship in which we can feel what we truly feel and so become who we truly are.
-elio frattaroli,m.d.,in -healing the soul in the age of the brain:becoming conscious in an unconscious world-

wow. that's great.
i don't think most psychiatrists or even most psychotherapists think that way,though. i'd love to find a therapist who approached things with such an attitude...

this is quite an interesting book so far.

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[allogenes.livejournal.com]

I dunno--given how little science the shrinks I've met know, I find it hard to believe that they are too far from this. Especially the ones who cannot write prescriptions. Your entry reminded me that a few years back I was thinking of writing a critical history of psychology/psychiatry...my working title was:

From the Curing of Souls to the Control of Behavior

With a subtitle: "a critical history of psychology from Socrates to" but of course there I did not know where to stop the project. :-)

[bluegreen17]

the therapists i've encountered in the last few years...none of them psychiatrists...have been really pushy about wanting me to go and get a prescription for something. it's like they don't want to work with you unless you're medicated. too much trouble for them,it almost seems.

possibly,the pendulum is swinging back...but one would hope with some wisdom gained?

[allogenes.livejournal.com]

Interesting--you'd think they would lean the other way given that they can not write the 'scrips themselves. But I have met a couple of therapists like that. Hmmmm. In the case of dealing with depression, they may be forced to push meds by whatever HMO they are working for--the federal gov't's guidelines make meds a required first step if they can get the patient to take them. And for what it is worth, the meds are quite good for *some* people. I tend to get a lot of side effects, so I personally am not too pro med. But others seem to like them.

And yes, I suppose that it does make their jobs easier if they can get people medicated...shame on them! :-)

[(Anonymous)]

i'm sad to admit that if i could stomach a pill to help fuzz out the harshness of life at times, i would. trying to talk to someone about what i feel is so much worse for me. that's why i can't even seem keep a journal, so imagine me trying to talk face to face. :- (
unfortunately i can hardly stand to take any medicine at all!
patti

[gerry.livejournal.com]

i like that quote....it's a beautiful one..never heard such a good thing from the side of psychatry...i mean i worked five years in psychiatry on the so called cronic station where all patients haveto tke their drugs for life.....you think you have asperger? i lately thought i have also

[bluegreen17]

i thought i might have aperger's because of my need for order and structure,but someone else suggested that might just be my obsessive compulsive disorder,and she's probably right!

[gerry.livejournal.com]

i have that issue also..i read something about bipolar disorder and ki think i have pipolar diorder then i read something about narzissism and i think i am an narcist, then i read something about borderline and i think i am borderline.....or someone describes me with this and i think it hits the clue and then some days later soemthing others hits the clue.....


some days ago i herd in my dream a voice, some seconds before i woke up: ..that nobody can teach you any problem to solve

really i dream partially in english...is it not a good quote...have never heard any better for me