Healing the Mind Through the Power of Story: The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry

by Lewis Mehl-Madrona

Book Overview

Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health * Provides a critique of conventional psychiatry and a look at what mental health care could be * Includes stories used in the author's healing practice that draw from traditional cultures around the world Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159143095X
• ISBN13: 9781591430957
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bear & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"