Dr. Colbert's book demonstrates the flawed history of the current medical model for treating mental illness and shows how destructive it has always been to people treated with unproven medications that relieve some symptoms, but cause more severe ones over time and impair or irreversibly destroy a person's ability to fully recover from the real cause of their problems, because these are never addressed.
He shows what real treatment consists of and how it can help people damaged by being treated by the current medical model and restore them to valuable members of our society, who because of their experience can help others who have faced the same problems and ineffective treatments.
It is a "horror story" when it describes the failure and a story of hope when he describes people helped by his approach of healing the heart and not drugging the brain. Drugs are about patient management and not cure, they are for the convenience of the staff, the family, and the psychiatrist. The patient may experience some benefit from the lessening of their symptoms, but must pay a price because the real underlying problem is not dealt with and their ability to fully experience their emotions have been dulled.
Dr. Colbert's approach is to provide a warm, accepting, and supportive environment so that trust can be established and there is no longer a need to escape from life through the learned defense mechanisms put in place to survive a painful childhood. He sites cases where he has helped patients recover from the drug therapy model and how others have not only been cured with the approach he suggests but how some have become therapist and bringing this help to many others and challenging the flawed system that ultimately fails everyone it treats, because it does not deal with underlying causes, but only drugs people into more socially acceptable, even if impaired behavior.
It is an insightful book for anyone who has experience with the current psychiatric model, personally or via friends or family.
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