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Chapter 2 - Psychiatric Fads: Past and Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2023

Joel Paris
Joel Paris
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada
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This chapter reviews the history of fads and fallacies in psychiatry. It discusses examples ranging from psychoanalysis to frontal lobotomy. It also describes the uses of electroconvulsive therapy that are evidence based, and explains how a fad for indiscriminate use of this treatment became prominent. These issues set the scene for an examination of current fads in the field, and how they attempt to fill gaps in our knowledge but often lack empirical support.

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contemporary psychiatryelectroconvulsive therapyfrontal lobotomyhistory of psychiatrypsychoanalysis
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Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry , pp. 20 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Psychiatric Fads: Past and Present
  • Joel Paris, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada
  • Book: Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
  • Online publication: 16 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245746.004
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  • Psychiatric Fads: Past and Present
  • Joel Paris, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada
  • Book: Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
  • Online publication: 16 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245746.004
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  • Psychiatric Fads: Past and Present
  • Joel Paris, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada
  • Book: Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
  • Online publication: 16 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245746.004
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