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Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough Paperback – August 27, 2002

by Elio Frattaroli (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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We would all like a quick fix for our problems, a simple pill to take away our anxiety and lift us out of our depression. But there is no quick fix for the soul, and anxiety and depression may be signals of the soul's unmet needs. In this landmark work, Dr. Elio Frattaroli challenges our fixation on psychiatry's "Medical Model," which treats mental illness solely with drugs instead of seeking a deeper understanding of our problems-in other words, treating symptoms rather than people.

Combining a Renaissance humanism with a sophisticated understanding of modern science, he makes an impassioned, persuasive case for "listening to the soul"-paying attention to the inner life of the emotions, both in psychotherapy and in our everyday lives. Drawing upon philosophy, literature, psychology, and riveting case histories from his own life and practice, Frattaroli explores what has happened to a culture that has been "listening to Prozac" and hearing nothing else.
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  3. Publisher
    Penguin Publishing Group
  4. Publication date
    August 27, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    8.43 x 5.51 x 1.04 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0140254897
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0140254891
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If Freud experiences a revival, he may thank Frattaroli for it. (Booklist)

About the Author

Elio Frattaroli, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full time private practice. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied Shakespeare at Harvard and trained with Bruno Bettelheim at the University of Chicago before turning to medicine. He has written and lectured on Shakespeare as well as on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. This is his first book.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group (August 27, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140254897
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140254891
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.43 x 5.51 x 1.04 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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Lúcio Malagoni Cardoso.
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Karyn
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2015
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Billy Rubin
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016
i read this book so many times. I'm not a psychiatrist but it was a fascinating, life changing, kind of book.
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JuLee Rudolf
3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly excellent information but a challenging read for the everyman
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2018
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A therapist recommended this book to me after I gave her a copy of Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker. Athough Anatomy was somewhat technical, I read it within 24 hours of starting it. It took me a week of painstaking effort to get through this. In college, psychology fascinated me but I chose to study engineering because it had been my plan all along and I didn't want to change course. A loved one has been in therapy and seeing a psychiatrist, who prescribed meds immediately even though he seems like a guy who would be very much into psychotherapy. Looking back at all that's happened with my loved one, I wish that I had read this book beforehand (as well as Anatomy) in which case something pretty horrible that happened may have been avoided. I really appreciated some of the content, especially the idea that working through trauma is a good thing with good outcomes. The part that I agonized about was I guess what I'd call Something About Mary. All that stuff about transference and her wanting to quit and the relationship between therapist and patient made my brain hurt. In the end, I found nearly the last page the best page (432) in which the author writes, "...we are already enlightened, and can recognize it at any moment if we only pay attention," "In practice, this means that you always have within you the resources necessary to solve the problems that confront you." I also loved his discussion on the same page about in-group and out-group after which he states, "Healing the soul--making the unconscious conscious--means transforming your out-group into your in-group, expanding the range of people with whom you can empathize and whom you can recognize as part of your extended family."
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Michael Scot
4.0 out of 5 stars You need to really enjoy the spiritual aspect of counseling to enjoy this book
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018
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You need to really enjoy the spiritual aspect of counseling to enjoy this book. Wasn't for me, but I can see why some like it.
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Omar Azam
4.0 out of 5 stars the inherent duality of existence from a psychodynamic perspective
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2011
A really mind-opening book (quite an accomplishment for a psychological theorist).
I read the first half of it and was sufficiently blown away that I had to pause. Also,
the remainder is heavy on the case study and a psychdynamic case study which is a
little bit indulgent. However, the author has a very original and powerful theoretical
framework which inquiring minds should examine. I liked the opening chapters a lot
regarding the philosophy of science and the inherent duality of existence.

I was awakened to the undeniable existence of the subjective after
reading these chapters. As long as there is an "I", the I's interpretation of
reality is all that really matters to that individual, in the way one speaks
of Descartes epiphany. In the end, when you throw away everything you have
ever learned, all that is really cogent and true is that which is
subjective.

As a matter of fact, this book helped inspire the title of my
poetry website, Subjective Substance.

I really liked the concrete examples that challenged modern brain science.
It really seems that brain scientists are involved in trying to map
responses to brain manipulation to subjective states. For example, their
logic goes, "If we can find that manipulating this region of the brain leads
to the person seeing red, then we can conclude that we can assume that this
part of the brain maps to the color red for all people all the time."

A few of my thoughts on this:

A fundamental problem with this logic is that they are trying to correlate a
subjective state based on an objective manipulation and then throw away the
utility of the subjective report.

If we look at this from an experimental perspective, what they are trying to
do is perform a regression of subjective state on objective manipulation.
The predictor variable is the physical manipulation and the outcome variable
is the subjective state. One problem is that they are still relying on the
subjective report of the patient as the outcome variable! They are still
bound to consider the subjective state as they go about trying to equate
objective with subjective. Now, as long as the relationship between the
manipulation and the subjective state is 100% consistent within that subject
and between all subjects, they are correct in their unification theory. But
otherwise, this correlation is really spurious, because the subjective state
really is the litmus test.

My comment on the book, in my opinion, furthers the ammunition against the
attempt to throw away subjective report as the important thing.
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John
4.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Companion to the Psychoanalytic Process
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2003
I had been immersed in the psychoanalytic process for over three years when I came across this book. Having experienced, first hand, the soulful aspects of analysis, both pleasant and painful, I connected instantly to Dr. Frattaroli's accounts of his work with patients. I am convinced that the only sane and solid path to emotional well being is the long, introspective one described so eloquently in this book. If you have ever considered beginning psychoanalysis (or you are simply interested in learning more about what it means to be fully human) then I strongly recommend that you read this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written
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D. H. Lester
5.0 out of 5 stars Facing Life Straight On
Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2012
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Elio Frattaroli is a man if intellect and integrity. His book is academically challenging while being spiritually enriching. In the tradition of M. Scott Peck and William Glasser, Elio challenges us to face life straight on without numbing ourselves with mind altering pharmaceuticals. I found his metaphor of life as a swimming pool or a quest a call to action in my life. Elio does not hand us ten easy steps to Nirvana. Instead he challenges those in the helping professions to assist people in learning life's lessons through the challenges that life brings. This is not light reading but for anyone who desires to live life on purpose a must read.
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