These days, 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 Freud that has been a mainstay of psychiatry for decades. Instead, they just prescribe medication after a very brief consultation with the patient.  Psychiatric hospitals that once offered patients months of talk therapy now discharge them within days with only pills.

To learn more about the fundamental shifts in psychiatric care, read the full article in the New York Times, “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy,”