Announcement of New Book, Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?, by Robert C. Smith, M.D., a long-time friend of mine

[Howard Stein]

                             2-10-2024     

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 

          Good Saturday afternoon from Oklahoma. I am writing on behalf of my long-time friend Bob Smith. You likely know him from his research at Michigan State University, where he developed two evidence-based methods—one for patient-centered interviewing, the other for primary care mental health—both now described in popular textbooks.

 

          In his retirement, Bob has continued his commitment to the biopsychosocial model of whole-person-medicine and primary care (e.g., family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics) mental health. This led him to write a new book for the public called Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? It will be published in the Spring 2025. The book portrays the dire straits of modern mental health care, stemming from medicine’s failure to implement the biopsychosocial model in a meaningful way. This derives from medicine’s effete adherence to the mind-body split as its guiding theoretical concept.

 

          I am writing to ask you to support his efforts to improve mental health care. He needs to expand his just-begun e-mail list. Here is how you can help:

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1.       Go to Bob’s Personal Website where the Home Page will be shown;

 

2.       Scroll to the bottom, right side of the Home Page; then sign-up where it says: Sign-Up With Robert C. Smith, MD—that’s all you need to do. In signing up, you will receive a couple gifts (depression/anxiety screeners; fact sheet) and automatically join his email list; you will then receive Bob’s short monthly Newsletter. 

 

           In doing this, you will incur no obligation to buy the book. However, I think you will want to have it because it crystallizes a way forward from the political vantage point.

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Thanks for considering!

 

Warmest regards,

 

Howard    

 

 

Howard F. Stein

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