In this controversial, deeply-felt and hard-hitting book, Terry Lynch takes issue with conventional medical treatment of psychiatric or emotional illness. He questions how doctors diagnose different levels of emotional disturbance, and the efficacy - and inherent dangers - of the drug therapies that are offered to many people as a matter of course. Dr Terry Lynch had been practising as a GP in Limerick for a number of years when he began to experience serious doubts about the response of the medical profession to emotional disturbance, serious depression and suicide: so called 'mental' or psychiatric illnesses. In his own practice he ceased working as a typical GP - devoting a small period of time to a large number of patients every day - and decided instead to provide a more holistic service, offering counselling and support to patients, some of whom have been gravely depressed or emotionally disturbed in other ways. Beyond Prozac is illustrated with the most moving and startling case histories which illustrate how emotional pain can be healed without drugs.
- ISBN10 1856354717
- ISBN13 9781856354714
- Publish Date April 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint The Mercier Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 394
- Language English