Haunted children : rethinking medication of common psychological disorders
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Haunted children : rethinking medication of common psychological disorders
（SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology）
State University of New York Press, c1998
- :hbk
- :pbk.
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Includes index
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Description
In Haunted Children Arthur F. Roemmelt, M.D., relates stories of his years as a child psychiatrist, sharing the experiences of children with a variety of psychiatric disorders and emphasizing the intensive and creative relationship necessary for the children to develop in a healthy fashion. The author discusses the movement of psychiatry away from psychotherapy toward strategic interventions and pharmacology and the consequences of this transformation. He argues that, although the latter treatment is seen as more efficient and available, it can also promote certain maladies such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and child abuse. Roemmelt concludes that what essentially is troubling many children is better confronted in therapy rather than treated with medications.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Shadows
2. The Impossible Journey
3. Prometheus
4. The Bug
5. The Hole in the Blanket
6. You Deserve to Live Even Though Your Mom Doesn't Love You
7. Lost in a World without Fantasy
8. C-H-U-C-K
9. Dr. Roemmelt, Where Are You?
10. The Treatment of a Ten-Year-Old Boy with Multiple Personality Disorder
11. You're Right, Tim. You Don't Deserve to Live.
12. Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead
13. Mama's in the Kitchen Baking Bread
14. The Occult Society for the Resurrection of the Middle Phalanx
15. Along the Amygdala and Its Branches with Gun and Camera
16. PTSD, ADD, 1999
17. Titanium
Epilogue
Index
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