num_pages: 400
description: Double Bind is a mystery about a psychiatrist who disappears. It is also the oddest vehicle to begin this country's second abolition movement - this time against a very modern form of institutionalized slavery. Psychiatry maximally controls and is routinely committing violent abuses - in the form of restraint and seclusion - not against slaves but against legally-inferior and fully-entrapped patients,. In an unforgettable book which will delight mystery readers and be a field day for psychological mystery lovers, the author throws the gauntlet down to American psychiatrists. This group has yet to disown, much less condemn practices which stand as one of the last forms of legalized abuse in the Western world. Whether the reader prefers the funny, disturbing right-brain mystery or the appended left-brain non-fiction article, Double Bind convincingly introduces Psychiatry as full-fledged Perpetrator. How is it possible, the book asks, for a profession of self-proclaimed "healers", righteously critical of violence in every other form, to be routinely damaging (by a conservative estimate) 1000 of its already compromised, help-seeking patients a day? Welcome to an exciting story and a unique intellectual ride. Welcome to a new and undeniable voice on behalf of psychiatry's helpless patients.
language: English
title: Double Bind
titlecomplete: Double Bind
publisher: Shame the Devil Pr