Download PDF WARNING: PSYCHIATRY CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR MENTAL HEALTH by William Glasser

Sinopsis

The following article from the op-ed page of the March 10, 2002, New York Times focuses on schizophrenia. But in this book I go beyond schizophrenia. I explain that none of the people described in the DSM-IV, 1 the official diagnostic and statistical manual of mental illness published by the American Psychiatric Association, are mentally ill. I don't deny the reality of their symptoms; I deny that these symptoms, whatever they may be, are an untreatable component of an incurable brain malfunction. I do not see their symptoms as mental illness but as an indication that they are not nearly as mentally healthy as they could learn to be.

Content

1. Who Am I, Who Are You, and What Is Mental Health?
2. The Difference between Physical Health and Mental Health
3. Unhappiness Is the Cause ofYour Symptoms
4. The First Choice Theory Focus Group Session: Choosing Your Symptoms
5. We Have Learned to Destroy Our Own Happiness
6. Introducing External Control Psychology and Choice Theory
7. The Third Choice Theory Focus Group Session-Joan, Barry, and Roger
8. The Role of Our Genes in Our Mental Health
9. How Can You Say That We Choose Our Symptoms?
10. The Fourth Choice Theory Focus Group Session
11. Luck, Intimacy, and Our Quality World
12. The Fifth Choice Theory Focus Group Session
13. Important Material from AI Siebert, Ph.D.,and Anthony Black
14. You Have Finished the Book, Now What?

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