Psychiatric Times July 15, 2024
A look at the different types of mental health disorders and the role of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
COMMENTARY
In contemporary psychiatry, there has been marked progress in neurobiological research to establish the causality of many mental disorders in brain pathology. I admire and support them in continuing these endeavors because I have the same hope. However, establishing psychiatry’s identity is missing in these endeavors.
In a New York Times Op-Ed titled “Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis”1 on July 17, 2015, author Richard A. Friedman, MD, warned against the modern clinical and research psychiatric practice primarily focusing on neurobiological treatments, mainly medications, and excluding psychotherapy, which carries its unique and irreplaceable position in treating psychological mental disorders. Friedman is a professor of clinical...
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