Drugs, Therapy, and Professional Power: Problems and Pills

by Ernest Keen

Book Overview

The current practices of prescribing psychotropic drugs, according to Keen, are both inconsistent and irrational. Overprescription alone is epidemic, and is driven largely by popular demand and professional convenience. The fact that mental life is being affected with physical agents leads to theoretical complexities no simpler than the metaphysics of mind-body relationships. These deeper questions are being ignored, Keen asserts, in favor of pragmatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275962008
• ISBN13: 9780275962005
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"