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A Much Needed  Return of Common Sense

FORT LAUDERDALE, 2005:  The world is out of control…. Today's political atmosphere is uncommonly edgy. People are choosing sides, for or against, the present administration. Our private industries care only about the bottom line, certainly not about creating superior products. Organizations and government agencies  are chock full of pen pushers and petty dictators jealously controlling their minor dynasties. No matter where we look, chaos seems to prevail. What we really need in this country is a return to common sense…

The Return of Common Sense addresses how special interest groups and specialists have fundamentally changed the core of American society, shifting its public and private policy from a citizen-driven democracy to a special-interest elitism where the narrow needs of a few, however contrary to what most people consider common sense, are imposed on all. Such self-serving policies by definition ignore the broader picture, leaving society to suffer the consequences. We end up with ponderous, invasive institutions like our present income tax and relief programs, which force citizens to depend on government bureaucrats and specialists for their welfare instead of themselves.

Such a forced abdication of personal responsibility is clearly seen in medicine and the mental health fields, where a strangling focus by special interests on the perceived needs of the patient, without regard to the broader implications to the whole of society, ultimately undermines the original intent of helping the patient, who after all must be able to function in society himself.

     The Return of Common Sense will provide you with tools to understand these shifts and how to return common sense to our public and private lives. It explains in a straightforward manner how our recent understandings of human nature, styles of thinking, genetics, neurobiology, and familial and group behaviors influence our choices even in public policy. Get ready to find out why you believe or behave a certain way, and why some highly intelligent, rational, and caring people, both conservative and liberal, given the same “facts,” can arrive at such different policy conclusions.

 
About the Author

 
     Felix R. Toro, M.D., is a physician specializing in the diverse presentation of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional disorders in medicine. He has helped develop multiple programs that integrate different disciplines to address behavioral healthcare issues, pioneering the "Common Sense" approach to psychiatry and mental health.

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