Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Distress

by TerryLynch (Author)

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  2004

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  Lovelessness and loneliness cannot be explained by chemical changes in the brain and cured by the ingestion of drugs. Lovelessness and loneliness, like anxiety and depression and all the ways of expressing distress which are called mental disorder, are part of what it is to be human, but part that can be understood, diminished and banished from our lives simply by caring wisely for ourselves. Terry Lynch understands and cares wisely for us all. His immense warmth and humanity are revealed on every page of this book. It is truly a book for our time and for all time . (Dorothy Rowe, psychologist, author, columnist .

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  2001

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  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. 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. Beyond Prozac is illustrated with the most moving and startling case histories that illustrate how emotional pain can he healed without drugs.