Solving Psychiatric Puzzles

SOLVING PSYCHIATRIC PUZZLES Despite revolutionary advances in the field of diagnosis and treatment of mental illness over the past 15 years, there is a mystery about psychiatry. What does a psychiatrist do? How are mental illnesses diagnosed and treated? In this book, patients describe in their own words their life stories of sufferings from mental illness, and discuss how they were able to conquer them with the help of therapy and medications. This book provides hope for millions of patients and their families that mental illness is treatable like any other physical illness. This book should be helpful to patients, clinicians, therapists, psychologists, primary care physicians, pediatricians, Ob/Gyn doctors, clergy and those who treat mental illness.

V. Sagar Sethi, MD, PhDDr. Sethi has a rich multicultural background. He was born in the state of Punjab, India, and got his undergraduate and Master's degree in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Munich, Germany. His medical degree is from Mexico, and he did Residency training in Psychiatry from Creighton and Nebraska universities in Omaha, Nebraska, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his "first life" as a scientist-professor, he published more than 80 scientific papers in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology and anti-cancer drugs. He has been in the private practice of psychiatry since 1991 in Charlotte, North Carolina. George W. Jacobs is a writer, professor and ordained Presbyterian minister. He is the director and co-founder of the Davidson Clergy Counseling Center in Davidson, N.C.