David Moyer

Given his family's extensive history of mental illness and the poor outcomes associated with its assessment and treatment, there was a certain inevitability that three-time-author David Moyer would gravitate to the mental health career field. Now, after a 28-year career working in diverse mental health care settings in locations in the US and overseas, retired Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Air Force Lt Col David Moyer has brought us the Transformation Trilogy. These three research-based books reconcile the disparity between his professional education and training and his clinical and personal experiences. He challenges current assumptions and practices in the mental health care delivery system while envisioning practical alternatives. Here are the three books in the trilogy.

"Too Good to be True? Nutrients Quiet the Unquiet Brain:" This is a medical memoir of his family’s four-generation bipolar odyssey. It introduces the role of infections and nutrient deficiencies and discusses the author’s increasing skepticism regarding the business-as usual mental health care system of which he has been a part.

"10 Ways to Keep your Brain from Screaming 'Ouch!':" Here, he explores practical ways that brain-based dysfunctional behavior can be prevented, assessed and treated. As psychiatrist Kelly Brogan writes, regarding this book, “.... This is medicine that puts healing above symptom suppression.”

"Beyond Mental Illness:" Written specifically for health care providers, this book discusses the history of the current diagnostic system, deficiencies in it, and institutional restraints that prevent reform. He proposes a major reengineering and gives examples of the kinds of targeted diagnoses and treatments needed for a biologically based diagnostic and treatment system.

Moyer wrote these books to add to an existing literature that promotes a tipping point away from symptom-based diagnoses toward identifiable and treatable biological contributors to dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Whether you are a health care provider or a patient, these books can help you to identify effective ways to understand and respond to what today are called mental disorders.