David Hellerstein
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Hellerstein, a psychiatrist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, puts this new form of psychiatry to the test. Depression and anxiety disorders damage the brain, but as Dr. Hellerstein explains, the right treatment can change the patterns of brain activity, brain cell connections, and even the brain's anatomy. To illustrate, he relates the stories of people as they travel through various phases of New Neuropsychiatry treatment,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Over the past several decades, psychiatry has undergone radical changes. After its midcentury heyday, psychoanalysis gave way to a worldview guided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which precisely defined mental disorders and their treatments, more recently, this too has been displaced by a model inspired by neuroscience. Each of these three dominant models overturned the previous era's assumptions, methods, treatment options, and goals....