A review by paulataua
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry by Nathan Filer

4.0

Well worth reading for the fantastic revelatory interviews and the telling critiques of the DMS. Those critiques should be enough to make us suspicious about the whole validity of psychiatry. Puzzling, however, is the fact that the author discloses so much and yet still seems to support the system and the practice. He seems comfortable with electroconvulsive therapy (brain toasting) and the use of medications (most often mind straitjackets) without consent. Quite rightly he puts ‘so called’ in inverted commas before schizophrenia, but is quite happy to leave ‘cure’ and ‘got better’ without that questioning punctuation. I , of course, want to add those marks. Read it and take all the wonderful things it has to offer, but do so critically. There is something not quite right about what is being served.