A review by lory_enterenchanted
Because I Come from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist by Edward M. Hallowell

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3.5

I went into this expecting to find reasons to dislike Edward Halloran, because of his role in the excessive medication of children, but he came across as sincere and caring and curious, and I could sympathize with him as he described a difficult family that was yet full of love. I think it's a case of how people persist in going into caring professions who are in need of care themselves. He certainly doesn't ever seem to have experienced really effective therapy for his serious childhood trauma. But what are we to do when (as Halloran himself says) the mind itself is a mystery we still don't understand?  Trying to pin it down with machine models and tame it with drugs will not work. How can a sick mind heal itself, without merely spreading more illness? We have to keep searching ...