“Given the limited health care resources offered to psychiatric patients, and the limited time each patient is allotted for face to face psychotherapeutic treatment (see for instance Gardiner Harris’s[2] recent New York Times article, “Talk Doesn’t Pay, so Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy”) should we perhaps consider memoir-writing – patients’ own expression of their experiences with mental disorders – an additional treatment venue available to patients?”
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