Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough
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Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn’t Enough

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We would all like a quick fix for our problems, a simple pill to take away our anxiety and lift us out of our depression. But there is no quick fix for the soul, and anxiety and depression may be signals of the soul’s unmet needs. In this landmark work, Dr. Elio Frattaroli challenges our fixation on psychiatry’s “Medical Model,” which treats mental illness solely with drugs instead of seeking a deeper understanding of our problems-in other words, treating symptoms rather than people. Combining a Renaissance humanism with a sophisticated understanding of modern science, he makes an impassioned, persuasive case for “listening to the soul”-paying attention to the inner life of the emotions, both in psychotherapy and in our everyday lives. Drawing upon philosophy, literature, psychology, and riveting case histories from his own life and practice, Frattaroli explores what has happened to a culture that has been “listening to Prozac” and hearing nothing else.

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Weight 0.45 kg
Dimensions 2.93 × 13.9 × 21.34 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

USA
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Paperback
Language

Pages

464
Publisher

Year Published

2002-8-27
Imprint

ISBN 10

0140254897
About The Author

Elio Frattaroli, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full time private practice. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied Shakespeare at Harvard and trained with Bruno Bettelheim at the University of Chicago before turning to medicine. He has written and lectured on Shakespeare as well as on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. This is his first book.

If Freud experiences a revival, he may thank Frattaroli for it. (Booklist)
Table Of Content

Healing the Soul in the Age of the BrainAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Importance of Being Conscious1: A Brief Introduction to the Soul2: The Technocrat and the Cowboy3: An Introduction to the Psychotherapeutic ProcessPart II: The Medical Model and the Psychotherapeutic Model: A Personal Commentary on Psychiatry, Science, and the Philosophy of Life4: A Lecture to Young Psychiatrists5: The Swimming Pool and the Quest6: The End Is in the Beginning: A Tribute to Bruno BettelheimPart III: Science: The Untold Story7: Two Kinds of Truth: The Principle of Complementarity8: A Science of Subjectivity: Complementarity and ConsciousnessPart IV: Experiencing the Psychotherapeutic Process9: Anxiety and the Spirit of Questioning10: Introspection and Putting It into Words11: Resistance and Transference12: But Isn't Psychoanalysis Supposed to Be About Sex?Part V: History Lessons13: Respect the Symptom14: Freud's Theory of the Soul: From the Swimming Pool to the Quest15: Integrating the Swimming Pool Within the Quest: "Where It Was, There Shall I Become"Part VI: The Mind—Body Problem and the Crisis in Our Culture16: What Is the Soul?17: What Are We Really Hearing When We Listen to Prozac?18: Repetition, Reflection, and the Search for MeaningNotesIndex

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