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The widespread use of nonconventional treatments, or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and the increasing evidence supporting their therapeutic benefits call for a concerted scientific effort to integrate treatments that work into mainstream medicines.
Answering
that call is the groundbreaking Complementary and Alternative Treatments
in Mental Health Care, a concise, practical reference that reviews
the many CAM approaches used in North America and Europe to treat—or
self-treat—mental health problems, and the history and rationale for a
variety of CAM treatments, including the risks and benefits of their
integration into mainstream mental health care. Two dozen contributors with
both conventional and nonconventional expertise present current information
about safe, effective mental health treatments—including herbals and other
natural products, stress management, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and traditional
Chinese medicine—that have not yet been fully examined or endorsed by the
institutions of conventional biomedicine. This book:
• Covers background issues, including conceptual and historical
foundations, emerging ideas and trends, safety issues, potential drug
interactions and adverse effects, and medical-legal issues pertaining to use
of nonconventional treatments in mental health care.
• Reviews the
evidence and offers practical clinical guidelines for the most widely used
nonconventional treatments. Twelve chapters cover specific nonconventional
modalities or alternative professional systems of medicine currently used to
treat mental illness, addressing historical uses of the specified modality,
significant recent research findings, unresolved safety issues, and evidence
supporting use of the specified approach in common psychiatric disorders,
from major depressive and bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and generalized
anxiety disorder to obsessive-compulsive disorder, dementia, and sleep and
substance abuse disorders. Practical clinical applications of complementary
and alternative approaches are discussed throughout the book.
• Closes
with three appendixes and a subject and author index. Appendix A
ranks evidence for the various treatment modalities by major psychiatric
disorder and is cross-referenced with the material in Part II. Appendix
B lists important Web sites, textbooks, professional associations,
and other resources. Appendix C contains a glossary of key terms used
in complementary and alternative medicine.
Written for both conventionally and nonconventionally trained mental health care professionals, Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care provides both an ideal reference for clinicians whose patients inquire about the uses of many CAM therapies and a critical, balanced review of the nonconventional modalities most widely used in Western countries to treat mental or emotional problems.
With relatively little in the way of printed material for comparative purposes, this book is seemingly unique and definitely informative. The chapters describing and explaining "Non-conventional Biological Treatments" and "Spirituality, Mindfulness, and MindBody Practices: are the most educational, and the material was well balanced and fair in its assessment of the advantages and disadvantages regarding their use.[Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Healthcare] is an excellent beginning, as it does not talk down to those less familiar with these modalitities and enables providers to open a realistic dialogue with their patients.
Although all of these chapters provide the mainstream clinician with valuable information, they also contain some implicit values associated with Western psychology and psychiatry.
This book gives an expertly written and concise introduction to a rang of complementary and alternative treatments in mental health and may sever as a truly inspirational guide to anybody wishing to expand the boundaries of conventional psychiatric practice.
At least, a book about many of the newest ideas in psychiatric treatment focused on detailed aspects with clinical guidelines on particular treatments in complementary and alternative medicine! Lake and Spiegel have found astute chapter authors committed to the understanding of treatments previously considered strange, exotic, or quackery.
James H. Lake, M.D., has a private practice in Monterey, California, where he combines psychotherapy and evidence-based Western and complementary treatments for the spectrum of psychiatric disorders. Dr. Lake chairs the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Approaches in Mental Health Care.
David Spiegel, M.D., is Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California.
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I:
Background Issues
Chapter 1. Complementary and Alternative Treatments in
Mental Health Care: Overview and Significant Trends
Chapter 2. Legal,
Regulatory, and Ethical Issues
Chapter 3. Patient Safety
Chapter 4.
Integrative Approaches
Part II: Review of the Evidence and Clinical
Guidelines
Chapter 5. Western Herbal Medicines
Chapter 6.
Nutritional Supplements
Chapter 7. Omega-3 Essential Fatty
Acids
Chapter 8. Chinese Medical Treatments
Chapter 9.
Homeopathy
Chapter 10. Ayurvedic Treatments
Chapter 11.
Nutrition
Chapter 12. Physical Activity, Exercise, and Mental
Health
Chapter 13. Integrative Medicine Treatments for Depression in
Women
Chapter 14. Mindfulness Training and Meditation
Chapter 15.
Religious Beliefs, Spirituality, and Intention
Chapter 16.
Yoga
Chapter 17. Qigong
Appendix A: Supporting Evidence for Use of
Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care
Appendix
B: Glossary of Key Terms in Complementary and Alternative
Medicine
Appendix C: Useful Resources for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine
Index