Why Should I Trust You?

With the tremendous growth in helpful medications in psychiatry, we have come to expect, with the full support of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, that a pill alone is necessary and sufficient to handle complex psychiatric problems. This has sometimes had the inadvertent effect of fostering a kind of dependency on the part of psychiatric patients, a separation of the person afflicted with a mental disease from the treatment of the disease. Over reliance on the medical model can diminish the human part and responsibility for recovery and even lessen the depth and longevity of that recovery.This is a book about the part of mental health treatment of severly disabled people with mental illness that is not the province of prescribing physicians. It is about the part of treatment that focuses on the effects of mental illness on patients and their families and on their social network. It is about therapy. It is about getting in, the process of entering the world of our clients while maintaining our professional objectivity.