Title: Try to remember : psychiatry's clash over meaning, memory, and mind /
Authors: McHugh, Paul R. 1931-
Publisher: Dana Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Repression, Psychology; False memory syndrome; Recovered memory; Psychiatric errors; Psychiatry history; Psychotherapy methods
Abstract: "Paul R. McHugh delivers a first-hand account of his battle against the theory of "repressed sexual memories" in the 1990s and closes with an argument against today's excessive diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Driven by a deep passion to rid psychiatry of nonscientific practices and armed with more than 50 years of teaching, practicing, and investigating in the field, McHugh describes how unrealistic expectations and ineffective treatment were promoted for too long by followers of Sigmund Freud and by practitioners who did not see psychiatry as a subspecialty of medicine - and did not follow the methods and practices that coherent medicine demands. This book is for patients, families, and mental health providers."--Jacket.
Contents: Meeting the issue -- The path less traveled -- Appraising the problem -- Joining the contest -- Fighting for Danny Smith -- The scope of suspicion -- Moving from defense to offense -- Getting to know patients -- Making sense of DSM -- What is meant by hysteria? -- Words, words, mere words -- The move to post-traumatic stress disorder -- Making sense of psychotherapy -- The "conflict" and the "deficit" psychotherapies.