Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry

by Michael A. Taylor and Michael Alan Taylor

Book Overview

Hippocrates Cried offers an eye-witness account of the decline of American psychiatry by an experienced psychiatrist and researcher. Arguing that patients with mental disorders are no longer receiving the care they need, Dr. Taylor suggest that modern psychiatrists in the U.S. rely too heavily on the DSM, a diagnostic tool that fails to properly diagnose many cases of mental disorder and often neglects important conditions or symptoms. American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199948062
• ISBN13: 9780199948062
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"