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Drugs, Therapy and Professional Power transports the reader into a world of drugs and psychiatric medications and the realization that politics, power, status, and economics conspire to make drug creations and prescriptions attractive, covering over underlying moral and ethical standards. Perhaps this book will enter into the current stream of concern regarding issues of drugs and consciousness and serve as a catalyst in awakening a return to values, habits, and ways of being that generate natural, internal medicines and a healthy consciousness. This is a valuable addition to current works in psychopharmacology. -Clark Moustakas Center for Humanistic Studies Detroit, Michigan

Considering the fact that the mental health professions are in the throes of a serious moral and identity crisis, this book which examines and explicates this crisis in depth and detail, is most welcome....This is a book I applaud for its boldness, clarity of vision, and moral indignation. I enthusiastically recommend it to my colleagues. -Journal of College Students Psychotherapy The author sheds a great deal of light when describing the operations of this complex and subtle ways in which it controls and subverts scientific discourse. -Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences ?The author sheds a great deal of light when describing the operations of this complex and subtle ways in which it controls and subverts scientific discourse.?-Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences ?Considering the fact that the mental health professions are in the throes of a serious moral and identity crisis, this book which examines and explicates this crisis in depth and detail, is most welcome....This is a book I applaud for its boldness, clarity of vision, and moral indignation. I enthusiastically recommend it to my colleagues.?-Journal of College Students Psychotherapy This book should be read by every mental health professional (and by potential patients) who entertains the notion that medicating the brain is free of moral implications. -Theodore R. Sarbin Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Criminology University of California, Santa Cruz Keen accepts the premise that psychotherapists are inevitably involved in a moral enterprise. But the current emphasis on psychopharmacology and biologically reductive approaches to therapy can result in violence to the patient rather than compassionate care. Keen's philosophical and historical sophistication forces him to the conclusion that the mind-body problem is still very much alive, and that unacknowledged dualistic thinking leads to violence. This book is an eloquent and informed call for a return for compassion to psychotherapy--for recognition of the sacredness of persons. -Karl Scheib Wesleyan University Drugs, Therapy and Professional Power transports the reader into a world of drugs and psychiatric medications and the realization that politics, power, status, and economics conspire to make drug creations and prescriptions attractive, covering over underlying moral and ethical standards. Perhaps this book will enter into the current stream of concern regarding issues of drugs and consciousness and serve as a catalyst in awakening a return to values, habits, and ways of being that generate natural, internal medicines and a healthy consciousness. This is a valuable addition to current works in psychopharmacology. -Clark Moustakas Center for Humanistic Studies Detroit, Michigan

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ERNEST KEEN is Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University. He has served as a psychological consultant and a clinical psychologist in addition to his writing and teaching. He has published three earlier books as well as numerous articles.

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