Well: Less Talk, More Medicine
Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 21:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Psychiatrists are talking less and prescribing more. Many of the nation's 48,000 psychiatrists no longer provide talk therapy, the form of psychiatry popularized by Sigmund Freud that has been a mainstay of psychiatry for decades, writes Gardiner Harris in today's New York Times. Instead, they typically prescribe medication, usually after a brief consultation with each patient.