Posted by allisonm on August 24, 2000, at 22:20:05
In reply to WHY R U TAKING THOSE MEDS ANYWAY??, posted by Oddzilla on August 24, 2000, at 15:53:29
Dear Odd,
Thanks for the article. Very interesting. If this topic interests you, I recommend a book called "Of 2 Minds; The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry" by T.M. Luhrman (Knopf).
Luhrman is an anthropologist who did a long study about how psychiatrists are trained in the U.S. The book deals a good amount on how drug therapy and talk therapy affect the way psychiatrists understand their patients (to borrow from the book cover). She watched residents, spent time with doctors on call, observed emergency rooms, sat through hundreds of hours of lectures that are a part of a psychiatrist's training. She even spent time counseling patients that were assigned to her as they would be to a psychiatrist in training at a clinic. She spent time in a community hospital that saw the same indigent patients come through over and over and she spent time in an expensive private psychiatric hospital. She talks about the differences between those programs and the effects of managed care on the whole system.I'm not all the way through it, but have found it pretty fascinating so far.
Allison
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