Psychiatric Movements: From Sects to Science

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Summary: Calls for the importance of recognizing contributions
Review: Featuring a new introduction by the authors, Psychiatric Movements: From Sects to Science examines how, in the 1970s, four divisive schools - existentialism, psychoanalysis, interpersonalism, and behaviorism - each arose, yet rather than engaging in a cooperative dialogue each sect battled the others for the title of "true" psychiatry. Psychiatry Movements reveals just how destructive this competition was, and stresses that if for no other reason than ethics and the Hippocratic Oath, patents in need of psychiatric treatment should receive the type of treatment they need most - not the one variety a given doctor dispenses. Psychiatric Movements: From Sects to Science calls for the importance of recognizing contributions of all the sects in the attempt to forge a more productive future for psychiatric treatment, and is an enthusiastically welcome contribution to academic and psychiatric reference and history shelves.