Check Your Mental Health
Complete Mental Health by John Ingram Walker, M.D. reviewed by Bryan M. Knight
At
first I thought this book was a parody. That's because each of the 17 chapters
has a flippant (though often clever) subtitle. For example:
Chapter
4: The Bipolar Spectrum: Up the Down Escalator Chapter 8: Understanding and
Managing Somatoform and Factitious Disorders:
Those
Low-Down, Mind-Messin', Waitin'-in-the-Doctor's Office Blues Chapter 12:
Alzheimer's Disease and Other Age-Old Concerns: Dulled Wit Chapter 13: Sexual
Dysfunction and Romantic Resolution: The Viagra Monologues Chapter 15: The Uses
and Abuses of Psychiatric Medications: Pills, Poisons, and Placebos. online marriage
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However,
this work is actually a highly readable, in-depth guide to what ails us
mentally. Dr Walker's humor is endearing and reflects his own advice to not
take oneself too seriously.
He
asserts that family doctors need more psychiatric training so they can
recognize the underlying emotional problems of their patients. In the interim,
Dr Walker created this amazing "Go-to Guide for Clinicians and
Patients." Psychotherapy
Within
these 350+ pages are quizzes for doctors and patients plus an astounding,
detailed view of drugs, psychotherapies and mental disorders.
Hypnosis
is favored with one link about it being of possible use in Conversion
Disorders. And a whole page for hypnotizing yourself to have a restful sleep.
The
author links each illness to details of famous people. For example, the
alcoholic authors who died around the age of 40: Dylan Thomas, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Jack London and Edgar Allen Poe. marriage counseling
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A
massive list of References adds authority to Dr Walker's personal
pronouncements and a comprehensive index allows doctors and patients alike to
quickly zero in on their chosen ailments.
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