Missing The Diagnosis: The Hidden Medical Causes of Mental Disorders
by William Matteson, Ph.D.
If you are interested in the reasons why mental health professionals need a huge base of knowledge about how medical conditions cause/mimic mental disorders, this is a great-looking Continuing Education course - and a GREAT ARTICLE on the topic just below the course information.
In the process, William Matteson, Ph.D. explores the biases in medicine, and within the mental health community, that perpetuate myths and fail to investigate each individual's emotional, health and medical background sufficiently to understand how to help them. Holistic and Integrative Medicine principles look beyond the medical diagnosis because the same symptoms can be caused by many different factors in a given individual. As a result, the diagnosis of a constellation of symptoms is actually less important to the treatment of the individual than an understanding of how they came to be afflicted.
I highly recommend this course - and the article that appears on the website!
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