Toxic Psychiatry : Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry"

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Summary: Some valid points, but ultimately wrong
Review: The writer has all the credentials but this book demonstrates the level of his ignorance. Oh, yeah, love should be the solution to all of medicine. Let's stop giving cancer patients chemo because the drugs are, toxic. In fact, the effect size of cancer drugs in the treatment of cancer is more than likely much lower than that of psychiatric drugs. We should BAN all cancer drugs then. It amazes me some publisher would actually publish a book like this.
By the way, yes, he was trained at Harvard and in fact one of the best residency programs in the country at the time. But when he was in training, it was ALL psychoanalysis! It may or may not surprise you that psychiatrists of his generation-I mean many of them, don't know a bit, I mean a tiny bit, about the brain. So yes, he is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, but it DOES NOT qualify him to discuss issues that he has no clue on, such as things or drugs that have to do with the brain.