Conventional psychiatry isn’t working.
That’s the conclusion of no less an eminent figure than Dr Anne Harrington in her book Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness (W. W. Norton, 2019).
Summarizing Harrington’s book, psychiatristDaniel Morehead recounted her view that “psychiatry as a medical discipline is a failure. Even worse, psychiatry constitutes a series of failures over its two-century history. The 19th-century asylums movement failed. Kraepelin’s descriptive psychiatry failed at the turn of the century. The pluralistic psychiatry of Adolf Meyer failed, leading an ‘anything goes’ mentality