Untangling Psychoses: Assessing the Social Evolution, Professional Efficacy, and Untoward History of Psychiatric Therapies and Clinical Diagnoses (2009)
Segriff, Joseph Michael (Author)
Drew University
Scibilia, Philip C.
Edition Details: Advisor: Scibilia, Philip C.
Physical Details: 568 pp.
Language: English
This study focuses on the social evolution, professional efficacy, and untoward history of psychiatric therapies and clinical diagnoses. I investigate and assess significant figures in the psychiatric evolution and how their efforts affect the way in which the mentally ill were treated. Looking at the historical, social, and medical evolution of psychiatric practice indicates a narrative that spans several centuries and speaks to many current issues facing psychiatry and the treatment of mentally ill individuals. Considering both effective and ineffective psychiatric therapies and assessing the significance and lasting impact of some seminal figures that loomed large in recent psychiatric history provides readers with keen insights concerning current psychiatry. Ranging from Dr. Henry Cotton's misguided focal sepsis (surgical bacteriology) and Dr. Walter Freeman's nefarious implementation of "ice-pick quickie" transorbital lobotomies to Dr. Ewen Cameron's infamous CIA-funded covert research concerning mind control electroconvulsive therapy with accompanying psychic driving (depatterning) provides nightmarish examples of the dark underbelly of government-directed psychiatric experimentation gone totally awry. The three research questions that guide my inquiry concerning the psychiatric assessment of appropriate therapies and in critiquing clinical diagnoses are fully explored. The research questions are as follows: What are some of the seminal milestones and looming figures that have significantly impacted psychiatric thought? What are the various controversial therapies and who are the key people whose thinking and practice have led to psychiatric reform? How have some of the psychiatric therapies and clinical diagnoses evolved and what are the implications concerning their evolution? The opportunity in caring for human beings experiencing mental illness goes way beyond fixing a defective brain. Promoting a society that values community, empathy, understanding, patience, and tolerance for those among us who are "different," also has to be a salient part of the amelioration process in modern psychiatry. One needs in these important matters to take the long view--to begin at the beginning or, at least, to begin at some beginning, which is usually at the ending of something that can be greatly improved.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 71/01 (2010). Pub. no. AAT 3393123.
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