What if psychiatry has been looking at the mind from the wrong direction? Critique of Psychiatric Reason brings together two unlikely but powerful intellectual currents: Christopher M. Palmer’s pioneering Harvard work in metabolic psychiatry and Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of freedom, bad faith and the historically situated human being. From their encounter emerges a provocative new framework for understanding psychiatric suffering—one that seeks to reconnect existence, history and biology, and to reconsider established notions of neurosis, psychosis and autism. At its centre is the story of Jean-Léonard, repeatedly moved from diagnosis to diagnosis and ultimately into tragic solitude. His case becomes the concrete ground on which the author tests a new way of thinking about the human psyche. For psychiatrists, philosophers and anyone concerned with what it means to understand a human being, this book asks a fundamental question: Should psychiatry rethink not only how it treats the mind, but the reason by which it understands it?

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"Hammers, Sickles and Sex Shrapnel Diary of a Communist Courtesan" by Steven Sydney has finally been published. It is available on Amazon Kindle.

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