Principles of Holistic Psychiatry: A Textbook on Holistic Medicine for Mental Disorders

Mental illness comes in many qualities and many degrees, from the young patient with low self-esteem and incomplete psychosexual development, to the patient with severe depression, anxiety, personality disturbances, social phobia, paranoia, mental delusions, or even severe autism, and schizophrenia with hallucinations and complete lack of sense of coherence and sense of reality. The fundamental idea of mental disorders in holistic psychiatry is that they ascend from existential isolation that grows from a specific lack of self-insight and understanding of the inner logic of life. This book presents and discusses the principles of holistic psychiatry in order to increase the use of this treatment among patients diagnosed with a mental illness. Contents Introduction: Holistic psychiatry. All you need to know to help heal your patient Sometimes you need to stop what you usually do Two different medical systems A critical analysis of Cochrane meta-analyses of the therapeutic value of anti-psychotic drugs Is the randomised clinical trial (RCT) really the gold standard? Is the biochemical hypothesis for the etiology of the mental diseases substantiated? Use of coercive persuasion ("brainwashing", "mind control") in psychiatry from an ethical point of view The therapeutic value of anti-psychotic drugs used in Denmark What is clinical holistic medicine? How does antipsychotic drugs & non-drug therapy effect quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) in persons with borderline & psychotic mental illness? Use & limitations of the biomedical paradigm When biomedicine is inadequate Index.