CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Shrink Rap January 18, 2015
Host dr. Dinah miller you write in your book shrink rap that psychiatry is a controversial medical field. Why . Guest well i think part of it is because of the history of psychiatry. Certainly its a field that has floundered with how to diagnose, how to treat, some of the treatments have not gone so well. For example the lobotomy phase that was very brief and i think part of the confusion with diagnosis that birthed some controversy is that with the exception of psychosis of people who hear voices or see visions or have delusional beliefs, that all the other symptoms blow into the rom of the u...