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Psychobattery

A Chronicle of Psychotherapeutic Abuse

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  • © 1980

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  1. Therese Spitzer
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. What Psychobattery is About

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 1-7

  3. Savage Encounter

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 8-20

  4. Primal Scream

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 21-38

  5. The Mystery of Lithium

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 39-53

  6. The Biology of Mental Illness

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 54-77

  7. Facing Reality

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 78-89

  8. Treatment by Assault

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 90-98

  9. The Identity Crisis in Psychiatry

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 99-111

  10. Psychotherapy is Forever

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 112-125

  11. Treatment by Incarceration

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 126-137

  12. The Family is the Patient

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 138-150

  13. The “Identified” Patient

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 151-161

  14. Anorexia Nervosa

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 162-173

  15. Suicide

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 174-193

  16. Warning: May Be Harmful or Fatal If Swallowed

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 194-211

  17. Erewhon Revisited, A Psychoparable

    • Therese Spitzer
    Pages 212-226

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 227-236
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About this book

It is an honour for me to be asked to contribute a foreword to the book of my friends Therese and Ralph Spitzer. I got to know them during an assignment as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and I have shared to the full the distress that comes to all those who have to watch people that they love affected by mental illness in one form or another. I have been an orientalist for only half my life; for the first half I was a biochemist, embryologist, and experimental morphologist. "When I, a young man, was called to the bar" (as Gilbert & Sullivan have it), in other words, when in the early twenties I was starting life as a research biochemist, I was greatly attracted to the biochemistry of mental disease. I followed the lectures for the Diploma in Psychological Medicine, and worked at the Fulbourn Mental Hospital near Cambridge on the creatinine metabolism in catatonic patients suffering from what we used to call in those days dementia praecox. I published one paper (with T. J. McCarthy), but my hopes soon faded, and when I read an excellent review on the subject which covered much literature, and ended by saying that biochemists had grown tired of "fishing in distilled water for the causes of mental disease," I realised that I had better find something more worthwhile. Eggs and embryos were the answer, and very worthwhile they were.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychobattery

  • Book Subtitle: A Chronicle of Psychotherapeutic Abuse

  • Authors: Therese Spitzer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5997-8

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The HUMANA Press Inc. 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-014-5Published: 30 September 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-5999-2Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5997-8Published: 12 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 236

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Popular Science in Medicine and Health

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Health & Hospitals

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