Taking America Off Drugs: Why Behavioral Therapy Is More Effective for Treating ADHD, OCD, Depression, and Other Psychological Problems - Softcover

Flora, Stephen Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 079147190X ISBN 13: 9780791471906

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2007

Synopsis

Argues for the superiority of behavioral treatments over drug therapies for psychological problems.

In this highly provocative book, Stephen Ray Flora maintains that we have been deceived into believing that whatever one’s psychological problem―from anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, depression, phobias, sleeping and sexual difficulties to schizophrenia―there is a drug to cure us. In contrast, he argues that these problems are behavioral, not chemical, and he advocates behavioral therapy as an antidote. He makes the controversial claim that for virtually every psychological difficulty, behavioral therapy is more effective than drug treatment. Not only that, but the side effects of behavioral therapy, rather than being harmful like many drugs, are actually beneficial, often facilitating self-empowerment through learning functional life skills.

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From the Back Cover:

In this highly provocative book, Stephen Ray Flora maintains that we have been deceived into believing that whatever one's psychological problem--from anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, depression, phobias, sleeping and sexual difficulties to schizophrenia--there is a drug to cure us. In contrast, he argues that these problems are behavioral, not chemical, and he advocates behavioral therapy as an antidote. He makes the controversial claim that for virtually every psychological difficulty, behavioral therapy is more effective than drug treatment. Not only that, but the side effects of behavioral therapy, rather than being harmful like many drugs, are actually beneficial, often facilitating self-empowerment through learning functional life skills.

"I like the author's obvious deep-seated concern about the book's topic and the enthusiasm with which he addresses it. He explains why the behavioral approach is more effective than drugs, and how it importantly differs from the drug approach. I hope this book will be widely read. Our society needs it." -- P. A. Lamal, editor of Cultural Contingencies: Behavior Analytic Perspectives on Cultural Practices

"This topic is an important one that has implications for the treatment of many children and adolescents. I like the author's passion for the subject matter; he clearly wants to make a point. He has certainly `done his homework.'" -- David Reitman, coeditor of Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of School Behavior

About the Author:

Stephen Ray Flora is Professor of Psychology at Youngstown State University and is the author of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The Power of Reinforcement, also published by SUNY Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 079147190X
• ISBN 13: 9780791471906
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192