PSYCH 166: Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Approaches in Mental Health Care
The House of Unconventional Healing
A patient arrives at Baker Street carrying two bags.
The first contains prescribed antidepressants. The second contains herbal preparations, vitamins, nutritional supplements and a handwritten list of alternative treatments.
“I thought these were natural,” she tells Medlock Holmes. “So I assumed they were safe.”
Holmes examines the bottles. Among them is St John’s wort, a herbal preparation with pharmacological effects and potentially significant drug interactions.
The patient has not mentioned any of these treatments to her psychiatrist.
Holmes realises…
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