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In Haunted Children Arthur F. Roemmelt, MD, relates stories of his years as a child psychiatrist, sharing the experiences of children with a variety of psychiatric disorders and emphasizing the intensive and creative relationship necessary for the children to develop in a healthy fashion. The author discusses the movement of psychiatry away from psychotherapy toward strategic interventions and pharmacology and the consequences of this transformation. He argues that, although the latter treatment is seen as more efficient and available, it can also promote certain maladies such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and child abuse. Roemmelt concludes that what essentially is troubling many children is better confronted in therapy rather than treated with medications.
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James Pinon
reviewed Haunted Children: Rethinking Medication of Common Psychological Disorders on March 16, 2021
Haunted Children
I approached this book with high hopes - after reading Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary, I was ready to dig into Stephen Hall's Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. Almost immediately I realized I was going to be disappointed. Hall opens with a montage of dropping his daughter off at school, then watching a jet fly into the World Trade Center. "Almost immediately black smoke began to curl out of the cruel, grinning incision its wings had sliced in the façade of the skyscraper." I was reminded of Art Spiegelman's disturbing In the Shadow of No Towers (essentially the same opening) - and one graphic account is plenty. You always know a discussion is headed downhill when either Hitler or 9/11 is evoked.
The next chapter focuses on the pre-Socratics and the "Axial Age" - although "focuses" is the wrong verb. The ancient Greeks are difficult even in a more extended study; Hall's survey is a mashup. After that I started skipping through the book, reading intermittently - and realized he'd lost me. Two days after I'd bought Wisdom, it was on the "for resale" pile.
Hall is a science journalist, so my disappointment is my own fault. I'd rather have more philosophy and science, and fewer "telling" personal anecdotes. I should have read a bit more while standing in the bookstore.
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