Lieberman, Jeffrey A.

This book will likely be of interest to those in the medical profession and scholars. It belongs in social and behavioral sciences collections.

A lively defense of psychiatry that extols brain science and pharmaceutical treatment. A contrasting approach is found in Philip Thomas's Psychiatry in Context; critical of routine overuse of pharmaceuticals, Thomas makes a case for understanding the unique experience of each patient, even in schizophrenia. [See Prepub Alert, 9/29/14.]