Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns to Drug Therapy - NYTimes.com

[Guest guest]

Alone with his psychiatrist, the patient confided that his newborn had

serious health problems, his distraught wife was screaming at him and he

had started drinking again. With his life and second marriage falling

apart, the man said he needed help.

But the psychiatrist, Dr. Levin, stopped him and said: “Hold it.

I’m not your therapist. I could adjust your medications, but I don’t

think that’s appropriate.”

Like many of the nation’s 48,000

psychiatrists, Dr. Levin, in large part because of changes in how

much insurance will pay, no longer provides talk therapy, the form of

psychiatry popularized by

Sigmund Freud that dominated the profession for decades. Instead, he

prescribes medication, usually after a brief consultation with each

patient.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/policy/06doctors.html?hp= & pagewanted=all

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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[Guest guest]

Alone with his psychiatrist, the patient confided that his newborn had

serious health problems, his distraught wife was screaming at him and he

had started drinking again. With his life and second marriage falling

apart, the man said he needed help.

But the psychiatrist, Dr. Levin, stopped him and said: “Hold it.

I’m not your therapist. I could adjust your medications, but I don’t

think that’s appropriate.”

Like many of the nation’s 48,000

psychiatrists, Dr. Levin, in large part because of changes in how

much insurance will pay, no longer provides talk therapy, the form of

psychiatry popularized by

Sigmund Freud that dominated the profession for decades. Instead, he

prescribes medication, usually after a brief consultation with each

patient.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/policy/06doctors.html?hp= & pagewanted=all

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start March 4