Australian Left Review
Article Title
Abstract
Psychiatry is that branch of medicine which treats patients whose presenting symptoms are mental. Psychoanalysis is only one form of psychiatry. A great number of psychiatrists, regarding psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented theory as “unscientific,” prefer more physically based modes of treatment such as tranquillisers, anti-depressants and electro-convulsive therapy (E.C.T.). Only a small number of people attending psychiatrists receives psychoanalysis or psychoanalytically oriented therapy.
Recommended Citation
Kirsner, Douglas, Discussion: Psychiatry or Anti-Psychiatry, Australian Left Review, 1(42), 1973, 44-46.Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/alr/vol1/iss42/8
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