Family Therapy as an Alternative to Medication An Appraisal of Pharmland 1st Edition by Phoebe Prosky, David Keith ISBN 978-0415933988 0415933986

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ISBN 10: 0415933986
 
ISBN 13:  978-0415933988

Author: Phoebe Prosky, David Keith
Family Therapy as an Alternative to Medication critically and passionately explores the concepts and practices that constitute the interface between family systems based psychotherapy and modern biological psychiatry. This diverse collection of essays, eight by psychiatrists, is neither for nor against medication, but takes a skeptical view of the unquestioned dominance that medication-based treatments have achieved among mental health practitioners. Its viewpoint is that therapeutic attention to context and relationships, regularly diminished when medications are prescribed, interferes with the development of psychiatric disorders, adds to maturity, and expands consciousness. Clinical examples, by both practitioners and patients, are used to define potential problems that arise from trying to combine a medical model with family systems work and also illustrate the decision-making processes and methods for applying family systems based therapies. This book will stimulate thoughtful conversation among students and practitioners of all mental health disciplines.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Introductory – Setting the Stage for an Exploration of the Interface of Family Therapy and Medication

Biometaphorical Psychiatry: Family Therapy and the Poetics of Experience – Keith

When More is Less: A Common Difficulty in Collaborative Treatment of Human Distress – Prosky

Family Healing and Planetary Healing: Three Paradigms in Search of a Culture – Auerswald

Part II: Theoretical – Dilemmas and Contradictions in the Approaches of Family Systems Therapy and Psychopharmacological Practice

Psychobiological Family Therapy: Toward an Ecological Psychiatry – Freeman

A Systemic Frame for Mental Health Practices – Pakman

Medicating the Ghost in the Machine – Schaefer

Can Giving Heal? Contextual Therapy and Biological Psychiatry – Ducommun-Nagy

Rethinking Illness – Mei

Part III: Political – The Mechanisms Behind the Accelerating Growth of Psychopharmacological Practices

The Myth of the Magic Pill – Duncan, Miller, Sparks

Pig Pharma: Psychiatric Agenda Setting by Drug Companies – Beder, Gosden, Mosher

Part IV: Clinical – Systems-Based Practices as Alternatives to the Use of Medication

Expert Therapist–Beginning Therapist – Flynn

The Jazz Consultation: Improvisation in Family Therapy – Begel

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Revisited – Ford

My Journey with Allison in Wonderland – Benda

Deficit of Attention Disorder – Yaroshevsky, Bekiaris

Thinking about Thinking in Family Therapy – Auerswald

Part V: Seeking Health – Clients Describe Their Experiences with Family Therapy and Psychopharmacological Treatment

The Headache – Dyer

Love of a Lifetime – Messalink

The Therapy That Almost Wasn’t, or Imaginary Therapy – Davis

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