Saving Talk Therapy : How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care (Hardcover)

from berthashaver

This book starts at the beginning of psychotherapy with Freud. At that time, the treatment for mental issues was spoken therapy with a trained therapist so the patient could verbalize concerns and come to an understanding of his own self. The treatment for mental issues now has moved from spoken ...

from Bidwell-Glaze

I was looking forward to wining the book "Saving Talk Therapy" on LibraryThing, as I knew that health insurers do not want to pay for talk therapy, at least mine don't. Instead I got a poorly written history of talk therapy, which ignored Jung and Adler, and other practitioners and theoreticians,...

from loraineo

With the decline in talk therapy Dr. Gnaulati (treating clients for over 30 years)makes a strong case for the valuable benefits of not letting over medicating and over pricing prescription drugs take over mental health treatment. Appears to have put a lot of research into his study. Well written ...

from Kronomlo

This book highlights the rise and fall of traditional talk therapy. The first two chapters go over the beginnings of psychotherapy, starting with Sigmund Freud and moving through the various therapists after him and their contributions to the field. These chapters, I thought, were very interestin...

from waltzmn

If this had been a library book, I'd have quit after page 6. As it was, I tried to soldier on, although increasingly I resorted to skimming. Why would I have quit? Because, on page 6, we read of "the overly scientific training of mental health professionals." What sort of training do you prefer?...