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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I have a number of books written in the 80s and 90s critiquing psychoanalysis from the perspective of Freud’s scientifically outdated theory of mind and his misrepresentation of his own clinical practice. This is a book written in the 21st C which takes those ideas as givens, and looks at psychiatry as presently practised in a post-Freudian world. Reminded me of The God That Failed, a book to which Paris refers as he looks at Freudianism as a parallel case to that of Marxism, although the latter had plenty of life in it when TGTF came out compared to the status of psychotherapy even in 2005 when Paris’s book was published. But I sensed that Paris needed to come to terms with the implications of science-based medicine: that one must abandon practices whose efficacy cannot be objectively demonstrated. no reviews | add a review
Over the last few decades, academic psychiatry has undergone a revolution. After the Second World War, most department chairs were psychoanalysts who belonged to separate institutes, not subject to the checks and balances of academia, and who did not subscribe to the tenets of scientific medicine. The revolution against psychoanalytic dominance began when a group of psychiatrists developed an evidence-based model that brought psychiatry back into the medical mainstream. In The Fall of an Icon, Joel Paris narrates the history of this transition, placing it in the context of current trends in science and medicine. He illustrates the story using interviews with prominent academic psychiatrists in Canada and the United States, and describes his own experiences as a psychiatrist: how he was caught up in the excitement of the psychoanalytic model, how he became disillusioned with it, and how he came to a new and more scientific view of his discipline. This is an essential work for understanding the recent history of psychiatry. No library descriptions found. |
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