by Chris Kilham

Medicine Hunter--Explorer In Residence--University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A FirstLook Feature

It is a great pleasure to read Brown, Gerbarg and Muskin’s heavyweight guide to mental health How to Use Herbs, Nutrients and Yoga in Mental Health Care. These aren’t starry-eyed idealists fresh out of internships, but instead seasoned professional psychiatric clinicians at the top of their game. Ignore them at your peril. The world of medicine is changing, and these three have demonstrated that they possess what it takes to be leaders of a new charge.

These three not only have read and absorbed the vast and deep science on natural healing modalities, they have used these in super-abundance in practice. In doing so, they have demonstrated the superior healing benefits of natural therapies, while creating a roadmap of clinical practice for peers who are tiring of the desperate state of patients relegated to toxic drug use. Tackling depression, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), sexual dysfunction, anxiety and a host of other body-mind disorders, these intrepid clinicians have planted their flag squarely in the nature zone.

If you are a reader with mental and emotional needs going unmet by current drug therapy, you will unquestionably find the fountain of wisdom in this book. And if you are a clinician yearning to do better for your patients, then How to Use Herbs, Nutrients and Yoga in Mental Health Care will provide you with the information and clinical means to effect a positive change in the lives of the people you see. Make no mistake about it- this is a powerful book, one that has the potential to blow a gaping hole in the current wall of psychiatric ignorance of natural therapies.

Book Review: How to Use Herbs, Nutrients and Yoga in Mental Health Care (W.W. Norton, 2009) by Richard P. Brown M.D., Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., and Philip R. Muskin, M.D.

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