How dysfunctional families spur mental disorders : a balanced approach to resolve problems and reconcile relationships /
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| Author / Creator: | Allen, David M., 1949- |
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| Imprint: | Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010. |
| Description: | xviii, 281 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Childhood in America Childhood in America. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8149484 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Attitudes about Family Dysfunction
- Caveats
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Brainlessness-Mindlessness Pendulum
- Eugenics
- Psychoanalysis
- Biological Psychiatry
- The Arrogance of Psychoanalysts
- 2. Don't Blame Us
- Schizophrenia and the Family
- Childhood Autism and the Family
- The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- Involvement in Academic Psychiatry by Parent Advocacy Groups
- The Issue of Blame in Spouse Abuse
- The Culture of Victimhood
- High-Profile Criminal Cases
- Guilty Parents
- A Massive Cultural Change
- Guilty Behavior
- Cultural Lag
- Divorce
- Mounting Frustration
- The Counterproductiveness of Blaming Parents
- 3. The "Abuse Excuse" Revisited
- Controversies about the Prevalence of Child Abuse
- Exaggeration of the Extent of the Problem
- Overzealous Therapists
- The Recovered Memory Debate
- The Freudian Unconscious
- Who's Lying and Who's Telling the Truth?
- The Unreliability of Memory
- Indelible Memories
- False Accusations of Abuse
- Parent Bashing
- 4. It's a Disease! Psychiatry and Psychology Sell Out
- The Influence of Big Pharma
- Who Is Doing the Research?
- How CROs Bias Research Findings in Clinical Trials
- Phony New Reasons to Take Medication
- Manipulating Psychiatric Education
- Reform That Is Barely Reform
- Benzodiazepines
- Why Treat Anxiety When You Can Call It Something Else and Make More Money?
- Managed Care: Profits ahead of People
- Selling Them the Noose Used to Hang Us
- How Managed Care Lied about How Much Psychotherapy Was Covered by Insurance
- The Lost Art of Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists
- The Field's Anemic Response
- How Some Psychotherapy Experts Also Added Fuel to the Fire
- Neuroimaging
- 5. The Heredity versus Environment Debate Revisited: What the Science Actually Says
- Do Genes Code for Specific Behavior?
- The Social Brain
- Causes versus Risk Factors
- Necessary and Sufficient Causes
- The Heritability Fraud
- Twin Studies
- The True Definition of Heritability
- More on Gene-Environment Interaction
- The Shared and the Unshared
- Social Learning and the Brain
- Long-Term Potentiation and Social Learning
- The Importance of Attachment Figures
- What Other Disciplines Tell Us about the Power of the Social Environment to Shape Human Behavior
- The Ties That Bind: Kin Selection
- Tribalism
- Self-Sacrifice
- Black Sheep
- 6. Evidence-Based Ignorance
- Medical Errors
- What Constitutes Evidence?
- Evidence for the Efficacy of Psychotherapy
- Pattern Recognition
- Any Research Method Can Be Used Well or Be Used Poorly
- "Empirical" Studies
- Sources of Bias in Drug Studies
- Collusion between Academics and Big Pharma
- Misleading Abstracts and Overstatement of the Results of Studies
- Prestige Journals
- Bipolar Depression
- Issues in the Treatment of Bipolar Depression
- The Misleading Abstract
- The Aftermath of the Misleading Abstract
- Psychosocial Issues in Bipolar and Unipolar Major Depressive Episodes
- Problems and Biases in Psychotherapy Outcome Studies
- The Problem of the "False Self"
- Flying Blind with Double Blinding
- Randomized Clinical Psychotherapy Trials
- Treatment as Usual
- The Choice of Outcome Measures
- Funding Issues
- Problems with Generalizability of Study Results
- Treatment Manuals
- Process Research
- Anecdotal Evidence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Descriptions versus Conclusions
- Once a Diagnosis, Always the Diagnosis
- 7. Diagnonsense
- Focusing Only on Symptoms
- Symptom Focus and the Use of Psychiatric Hospitalization
- The Psychiatric History
- Psychological Testing
- Is a Symptom Significant?
- Symptom Checklists
- Bipolar Disorder M.A.
- Lithium
- Bipolar II Disorder
- A Valid and Generalizable Anecdote
- Bipolar Disorder in Children
- Drugs, Anyone?
- Adult ADHD: Another Dubious Hyped Disorder
- Speed
- ADHD in Children
- ADHD in the Natural Habitat
- The Party Line
- 8. Spinning on Axis II: The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Borderline Rage
- Self-Injurious Behavior
- Who Needs the Aggravation?
- Not a Disease
- Other Non-DSM Characteristics of BPD
- Risk Factors for BPD
- Family Dynamics of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Spoiling Behavior
- Co-conspirators
- Regulating a Parent's Affect: Who Is Taking Care of Whom?
- What Might Be Going on Biologically?
- What Makes the Parents Act the Way They Do?
- When Individuals with BPD Have Children
- 9. A Tower of Psychobabble? Today's Psychotherapy, the Idea of Mental Defectiveness, and Family Systems Issues
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Therapy
- Experiential/Humanistic Psychotherapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- 10. Integration
- The Tower of Psychobabble Revisited
- Why Are Patients Not Doing the Obvious?
- Eliminating the Middle Man
- Consilience
- Finding a Good Psychopharmacologist: Good and Bad Signs
- Finding a Good Therapist
- Reconciliation
- Do You Need a Therapist?
- Forgiveness
- A Last Word on Parental Guilt
- A Final Word
- References
- Index
