Healing Runaway Minds: How To Understand And Recover From Major Mental Disorders With Special Emphasis On "Schizophrenia"

Healing Runaway Minds presents an easy-to-understand trauma-based model of “mental illness.” From this model, the author provides an explanation of how the feelings of terror, hurt, loneliness, guilt, shame, and anger interact, resulting in a “runaway mind.” In Healing Runaway Minds, Dr. Colbert: • Clearly dispels the evidence that supports a disease and/or medical model of mental illness and offers an emotional-based explanation of schizophrenia, depression, and ADHD. • Presents a clear platform as to when psychotropic drugs should and should not be used, since it is now well documented that these drugs work the same as street drugs—they do not correct a defect, but only suppress emotional pain. • Introduces an approach to child development that, if applied or taught to parents and professionals, would greatly reduce the incidence of mental illness and schizophrenia in particular. * * * * * This is an important book that will help anyone who has ever been labeled mentally ill. It will alert mental health professionals as to what their patients need and what is unhelpful. It will inform the public and administrators regarding what programs work and what do not, even with limited funds. Bertram P. Karon, Ph.D., author of Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia Dr. Colbert has written a compassionate book that poignantly articulates the need for changing our perceptions of people who have been labeled with serious mental illnesses. He advocates for rethinking the biopsychiatric model in favor of supporting and implementing emerging alternative treatments that have demonstrated their effectiveness. This books is a timely clarion call for action. Ronald Bassman, Ph.D., author of A Fight to Be: A Psychologist’s Experience from Both Sides of the Locked Door