http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/magazine/25Memoir-t.html?scp=2&sq=article%20by%20psychiatrist%20encouraging%20use%20of%20talk%20therapy%20as%20well%20as%20medication&st=cse
I found this article quite sad as it is authored by a well regarded psychiatrist and he is just now discovering/appreciating that just maybe he should talk to his clients in addition to providing them medication. Why and how has the biomedical model of psychological disorders taken such a strong grip on treatment? It has strong and vocal proponents, as we are all aware, simply because we are choosing to ignore any and all data that might imply otherwise. However, where is the indisputable scientific foundation that all disorders are biologically brain based? I quite understand the motive behind this perspective as, within the last 20 years,the need to relieve parents of all responsibility has superseded any research to search for the importance of early experience. But how much longer are we psychologists willing to allow ourselves to be partner to political correctness as opposed to looking at the data of the impact of early experience on the development of an infant's brain. This is not a blame game--parents do the best they can and there is no bigger challenge than parenting. In addition, the US government, as opposed to those in Europe, provides little if any support to parents relative to parental leaves and parental visits. Instead of ignoring how important an infants early years are, why don't those of us who specialize in understand human behavior work together to encourage stronger support structures for parents in every way possible. Joan Joan Warmbold Boggs Professor of Psychology Oakton Community College jwarm...@oakton.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2390 or send a blank email to leave-2390-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
