Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Healing the Mind Through the Power of Story: The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry Lewis Mehl-Madrona

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Healing the Mind Through the Power of Story: The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry

Lewis Mehl-Madrona

Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all reported trials are considered instead of just the trials published in journals. Up to 80 percent of patients with bipolar depression retain their symptoms despite conventional treatment and 10 to 20 percent of these patients commit suicide.

In HEALING THE MIND THROUGH THE POWER OF STORY, Dr. Mehl-Madrona shows what mental health care could be. He explains that within a narrative psychiatry model of mental illness, people are not defective, requiring drugs to “fix” them. What needs “fixing” is the ineffective stories they have internalised and succumbed to about how they should live in the world. Drawing on traditional stories from cultures around the world, Dr. Mehl-Madrona helps his patients rewrite their lives. He shows how this innovative approach is actually more compatible with what we are learning about the biology of the brain and genetics than the conventional model of psychiatry. Drawing on wisdom both ancient and new, he demonstrates the power and success of narrative psychiatry to bring forth change and lasting transformation.

384 pages

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	June 15, 2010
ISBN13	9781591430957
Publishers	Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Pages	384
Dimensions	154 × 228 × 22 mm · 566 g
Language	English