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In Brain Evangelists, renowned psychiatrist Gordon Warme, MD, blows the whistle on modern psychiatry. In irresistible, darkly amusing prose, he argues that, in the long history of medicine, biological and chemical “abnormalities” in psychiatric patients have never been identified. He insists that labels such as schizophrenia and depression are misleading metaphors that dehumanize patients and authorize psychiatrists to do the unthinkable: remove patients’ civil rights, hospitalize without warrant, and administer powerful drugs against patients’ wills.Provocatively, Warme does not hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for psychiatry’s bad habits. Instead, he says, we should point the finger at the people prescribing the drugs–psychiatrists. Weaving his powerful argument with riveting anecdotes; cultural phenomena; and luminous references to ancient myths, literature, and art, Warme calls for a brand new psychiatry–one that rejects pseudo-science and outdated ideologies. Rather than concentrating on superficial advice and quick fixes, psychiatry should, he says, concentrate on patients’ darker inclinations. Above all, this remarkable book celebrates the complexity of the human psyche and self-knowledge as recovery–despite grim life continuing as always.Editorial ReviewsFrom the AuthorPraise for previous books by Gordon Warme, MD:”Gordon Warme is a deeply interesting writer, a paradoxical, liminal character all too rare in our culture. Endlessly curious and humanely skeptical, as any good clinician ought to be, his wisdom is disturbing, yet seductive.”–The Globe and Mail “Stating unequivocally that there is no such thing as mental disease is a pretty ballsy thing for a psychiatrist to do. When said psychiatrist is also a prominent professor at the University of Toronto’s medical school … such a statement could be professional suicide. But Dr. Gordon Warme, the doctor in question, has been espousing this opinion for years, and has published three books to back his assertions up.”–Quill & Quire “The sharp point of Warme’s spear is aimed straight at schizophrenia … Warme offers no counter-church with an absolute truth of its own. ‘Madness,’ he says slowly, ‘is another way of life, another way of being human.’ As a rational humanist skeptic, what [Warme] really believes in is the aesthetic cure…. to convince patients to become more conscious creators of their own selves.”–Maclean’s “Warme represents a generation of humanist psychiatrists guided by a sort of muscular liberalism…. [He] rightly bemoans the destruction of humanity in psychiatry’s organizations and institutions and despises current ‘scientific’ psychotherapeutic approaches designed primarily to be easily researched. Ditto for stone-faced, jargon-rich specimens of psychoanalysis.”–The Globe and Mail “It would be hard to imagine a more balanced introduction to what psychotherapy is about …. Warme is at home with great literature, and uses literary insights to advance his argument…. [He] shows that in the hands of the best modern therapists, irony, sensitivity and a subtle understanding of human interactions are essential aspects of clinical engagements.”–The Globe and MailAbout the AuthorGordon Warme, MD, is a medical doctor specializing inpsychiatry. He has been an academic at the University of Toronto for 40years.Born and educated in Toronto, he trained with KarlMenninger at the Menninger Clinic in the U.S. and at the UniversitätHeidelberg in Germany. He has been a faculty member at the MenningerClinic, the University of Kansas, and the University of Toronto.During his career, Dr. Warme has been the director of many programs: KansasTreatment Center for Children; Children’s Division of the ClarkeInstitute of Psychiatry; Psychotherapy Centre at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. He has held a Dozor visiting professorship at Ben-GurionUniversity in Israel. He is a past president of the CanadianPsychoanalytic Society, founder and past director of the Toronto ChildPsychoanalytic Program, and for a number of years was senior researchassociate in the department of English at Trinity College, University of Toronto.Dr. Warme has written four books: Reluctant Treasures (New York: Jason Aronson, 1994); The Psychotherapist (New York: Jason Aronson, 1996); The Cure of Folly (Toronto: ECW Press, 2003); and Daggers of the Mind: Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2006).File Size: 1753 KBPrint Length: 282 pagesPublisher: UAC Press (August 1, 2016)http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Evangelists-Psychiatry-Far-Fetch…