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In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Change Your Brain, Change Your Life fits in perfectly. Filled with "brain prescriptions" (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who've experienced anxiety, depress ... review details
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Snake oil for the Uninformed
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As a clinical psychologist with 32 years of practice,I was amazed at the faulty science that Dr. Amen used to try to prove his theory. I will not go into great detail but I will attempt to make several points. Brain imaging studies have never shown any psychiatric pathologies. For example, several years ago, an NIMH researcher tried to show that there was a particular lesion in in the stratial area of the brains of almost all ADHD diagnosed boys. It later turned out that these children were all recieving stimulant drugs for an extended period of time. It is well known that those very drugs CAUSE those lesions in the stratial area of the brain. What Dr. Amen is selling in this book is "junk science" that even main steam psychiatry has rejected. His conclusions are not supported by science.
Dr. Amen states that depression is caused by a neurochemical deficit. First of all, there has never been a research study that has even come close to verifying this. Secondy, all human beings have felt depressed at some time in their lives. Does this mean that we all have a chemical imbalance? Feeling depressed usually is caused by the things that happen to us in our lives, and then the chemicals in our brains are modifed as a reaction to this. They don't cause it. Blaming the brain for everything that happens to us is not only simplistic but it removes the humanity from us in a reductionistic way so that we don't have any responsibility for our own lives or what happens to us.
Finally, Dr. Amen suggests that utilizing drugs stops bad behavior very efficiently. Well, if we proceed with this distorted logic, we should give everyone a chemical lobotomy. I would like to inform Dr. Amen that a bullet to the head would stop bad behavior even more efficiently than his drugs. If Dr. Amen were treating Einstein or Edison for their behavior I wonder if we would have ever heard of them.
This book should be more accurately titled: "Making Money With Pop-Psychiatry and Junk Science: The Diary of a Snake Oil Salesman"
Lloyd Ross, Ph.D., FACAPP. |
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