Citizens concerned with our deplorable mental health
care system will appreciate Dr. Robert L. Pyles letter in
the Boston Globe yesterday ( Sept. 7 ) . Dr. Pyles, past
president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, writes :
" Accumulating research data show that the use of psychiatric
drugs alone, without therapy, is highly ineffective. "
I have lived with psychiatric patient whose " therapy "
consists of little more than lithium regulation. But it
was obvious to me that the man - divorced and middle aged -
was " soul sick ". I concluded a long time ago that
that modern psychiatry no longer believes in the human
soul. And that is very unscientific indeed !
Can lithium restore a man's faith in life or a good
God or just a rational universe ?
Can lithium substitute for " love " - or is that too
just a buzz word for a biochemical unbalance ?
Thank you , Dr. Robert L Pyles .
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