Healing the Mind Through the Power of Story: The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry
Autor Lewis Mehl-Madronaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2010
Provides a critique of conventional psychiatry and a look at what mental health care could be
Includes stories used in the author s healing practice that draw from traditional cultures around the world
Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all FDA-reported trials are considered instead of just the trials published in journals. Up to 80 percent of patients with bipolar depression remain symptomatic despite conventional treatment, and 10 to 20 percent of these patients commit suicide.
In "Healing the Mind through the Power of Story," Dr. Mehl-Madrona shows what mental health care could be. He explains that within a narrative psychiatry model of mental illness, people are not defective, requiring drugs to fix them. What needs fixing is the ineffective stories they have internalized and succumbed to about how they should live in the world. Drawing on traditional stories from cultures around the world, Dr. Mehl-Madrona helps his patients re-story their lives. He shows how this innovative approach is actually more compatible with what we are learning about the biology of the brain and genetics than the conventional model of psychiatry. Drawing on wisdom both ancient and new, he demonstrates the power and success of narrative psychiatry to bring forth change and lasting transformation."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781591430957
ISBN-10: 159143095X
Pagini: 405
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bear & Company
ISBN-10: 159143095X
Pagini: 405
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bear & Company
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." . . "Healing the Mind Through the Power of Story" is an excellent account of a relatively new perspective of mental health treatment. Mehl-Madrona's explanations of the need for alternative treatments to medications and specific treatment goals for patients with serious mental disorders are well presented. The only concerns brought about by this approach to mental health are public opinion and compliance. The world still lives by the promise of a pill as the cure for any disease, and it is still difficult to get people to accept alternatives to that paradigm, especially in psychology." --American Psychological Association, February 2011
"This book will revolutionize how we think about psychological healing, giving us new tools to achieve harmony and balance in all aspects of our lives."--Hyla Cass, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health
"This book will revolutionize how we think about psychological healing, giving us new tools to achieve harmony and balance in all aspects of our lives."--Hyla Cass, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health
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SELF-TRANSFORMATION / PERSONAL GROWTH "This wonderful book is deep, moving, honest, educational, and will open your mind to the power of storytelling to heal and know more intimately the vastness of our beings. As a physician and indigenous healer, Lewis Mehl-Madrona uniquely blends his knowledge of science and the greater mysteries to help us SEE more clearly." --Judith Orloff, M.D., author of Second Sight "Lewis Mehl-Madrona combines an emerging modern understanding of the power of story to change minds and brains with a traditional recognition of the shaping power of story." --Dr. Brian Boyd, author of On the Origin of Stories "This book will revolutionize how we think about psychological healing, giving us new tools to achieve harmony and balance in all aspects of our lives." --Hyla Cass, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all FDA-reported trials are considered instead of just the trials published in journals. Up to 80 percent of patients with bipolar depression remain symptomatic despite conventional treatment, and the suicide rate for these patients is twenty times greater than the general population. In Healing the Mind through the Power of Story, Dr. Mehl-Madrona shows what mental health care could be. He explains that within a narrative psychiatry model of mental illness, people are not defective, requiring drugs to "fix" them. What needs "fixing" is the ineffective stories they have internalized and succumbed to about how they should live in the world. Drawing on traditional stories from cultures around the world, Dr. Mehl-Madrona helps his patients re-story their lives. He shows how this innovative approach is actually more compatible with what we are learning about the biology of the brain and genetics than the conventional model of psychiatry. Drawing on wisdom both ancient and new, he demonstrates the power and success of narrative psychiatry to bring forth change and lasting transformation. LEWIS MEHL-MADRONA, M.D., Ph.D., is certified in psychiatry, family practice, and geriatrics and worked for years in rural emergency medicine. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Coyote Medicine, is a professor of family medicine at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine and of psychology at Argosy University, and lectures around the world.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: There's Nothing But Story
Part I
History and Foundations
1 Conventional Mental Health Today
2 Good Stories and Mental Health
3 How Do We Learn to Be Who We Are?
4 How Do We Learn to Feel What We Feel?
5 The Meaning of Pain and Depression
6 Story and the Shaping of Identity
Part II
Science and Mind
7 How Culture Changes Biology and Genetics
8 How Culture Is Context and Context Shapes Behavior
9 Stories from Science: Change Is Always Possible
Part III
The Practice of Narrative Psychiatry
10 The Power of Ceremony
11 How Communities Create Change
12 To Story or Not to Story
13 Indigenous Models for the Practice of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Part IV
Examples of Narrative Psychiatry in Action
14 Narratives for Anxiety and Depression
15 Narratives and Bipolar Disorder
16 Narrative Approaches to Psychosis
Notes
About the Author
Index