Mental ills attract alternative therapies.(Brief Article) From: Science News | Date: July 15, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

A substantial minority of people suffering from mental ailments seek out alternative therapies, usually without telling their physicians, according to a new analysis of data from a 1996 national survey of the public's choices of medical therapies.

About 12 percent of people contacted had experienced a mental disorder. Of those, nearly 1 in 10 said they had consulted a practitioner of an unconventional therapy, say Benjamin G. Druss and Robert A. Rosenheck, both psychiatrists at Yale University School of Medicine. Patients made about half those visits for psychological ...

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