When Treatment Fails ...
blame the patient.
Psychiatry remains the discipline of medicine that has yet to grasp the nature of the disorders it treats. This explains why it lacks the power to resist social and political fads claiming to solve the problem of human mental distress.
So said Emeritus Prof. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins University, the oft-awarded and, at 93, Grand Old Man * of American …
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