July 15th is Prime Day

The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Dis... and thousands of other textbooks are available for instant download on your Kindle Fire tablet or on the free Kindle apps for iPad, Android tablets, PC or Mac.

Buy New

$130.00

FREE Shipping.

Only 1 left in stock (more on the way).

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Gift-wrap available.

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

Buy Used

$40.40

Used: Very Good | Details

Sold by Call Me Ishmael

Fulfilled by Amazon

Condition: Used: Very Good

Comment: Very good, no jacket issued. Slight edge wear on boards with a toned spine. Get the product you want, in the condition you expect. We grade our items conservatively, and in accordance with Amazon guidelines. No ex-library items. No markings, unless indicated. We use Fulfillment by Amazon to ensure a reliable and satisfactory experience for you. Thank you for your business.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Distress: Comparisons With Psychotherapy and Placebo Hardcover – August 1, 1989

by Seymour Fisher (Editor), Roger P. Greenberg (Editor)

2 customer reviews

ISBN-13: 978-0805801385 ISBN-10: 0805801383 Edition: 1^st

Buy New

Price: $130.00

14 New from $70.14 16 Used from $8.48

Rent from Amazon Price New from Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$38.46

$104.00

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

—

$130.00

$70.14

$8.48

Free%20Two-Day%20Shipping%20for%20College%20Students%20with%20Amazon%20Student

Broadly scanning the biologically oriented treatments for psychological disorders in 20th century psychiatry, the authors raise serious questions about the efficacy of the somatic treatments for psychological distress and challenge the widespread preference for biologically based treatments as the treatments of choice. For graduate and undergraduate courses in clinical, social, and health psychology, behavioral medicine, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. psychopharmacology, psychiatry, and clinical social work.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...the book is valuable in raising questions about the effectiveness of alternative medications.
—Contemporary Psychology

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Start reading The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Dis... instantly on your Kindle Fire or on the free Kindle apps for iPad, Android tablet, PC or Mac. Don't have a free Kindle app? Get yours here

Product Details

Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805801383
ISBN-13: 978-0805801385
Product Dimensions: 1 x 6 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,684,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #240 in Books > Medical Books > Pharmacology > Neuropsychopharmacology
- #5323 in Books > Textbooks > Social Sciences > Psychology > Clinical Psychology
- #6088 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Psychiatry

Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price?

Important Information

Ingredients
Example Ingredients

Directions
Example Directions

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars

5 star		100%
4 star		0%
3 star		0%
2 star		0%
1 star		0%

See both customer reviews

Share your thoughts with other customers

Write a customer review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

A must read for anyone considering psychotropic meds

By gbwalls@aol.com on January 19, 1999

Format: Hardcover

This book, though now 10 years old, is an outstanding book of reviews of the research on the effectiveness of psychiatric medications. Each chapter reviews a different class of meds, including anti-depressants (pre-Prozac), anxiolitics (anti-anxiety meds), neuroleptics (so-called antipsychotics), Ritalin (in a chapter that challenges the idea that Attention Deficit Disorder even exists), and even a chapter on shock treatment. The review are rigorous, scholarly, and critical. The editors summarize the reviews by stating that at the present time (1989)"biological psychiatry is swimming in uncertainty" in spite of the inflated claims of the pharmaceutical industry regarding their highly profitable products (little has changed in the last ten years in this respect) The authors of the various chapters criticize technical aspects of research designs, the financial dependence of researchers on drug companies, the exaggeration of therapeutic benefits, the ignoring of negative results, the minimization or under-reporting of side effects, and the over-generalizing of the appropriate use of medications to patient populations that were not part of the research on a particular drug's effectiveness. This is a must read for psychotherapists and patients who have been intimidated by the claims that drug treatments are quicker and more effective than psychotherapy, claims that this book calls into question.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Still important

By Nora L. Ishibashi on December 31, 2003

Format: Hardcover

I bought this book when it first came out and I continue to read it and refer to it. It is one of the rare scholarly compilations to question the current rush toward simple fixes for psychological distress. I keep lending it to people and having to fight to get it back. There is solid and interesting research and a different perspective on mental well being. If you are serious about understanding biological interventions to mental health problems, this is a significant contribution.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

See both customer reviews (newest first)

Write a customer review

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more