Psychiatry under the influence : institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform

Psychiatry under the influence : institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform / Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove.

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry during the past 35 years. The book documents how the psychiatric establishment regularly misled the Ame...

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Main Authors: Whitaker, Robert (Author), Cosgrove, Lisa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Subjects:
American Psychiatric Association.
American Psychiatric Association
Psychiatry > United States > History.
Psychiatric ethics > United States.
Psychiatry.
Pharmacology.
Medical ethics & professional conduct.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Psychiatric ethics
Psychiatry
Health and Wellbeing.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • A case study of institutional corruption
  • Psychiatry adopts a disease model
  • Economies of influence
  • The etiology of mental illness is now known
  • Psychiatry's new drugs
  • Expanding the market
  • Protecting the market
  • The end product : clinical practice guidelines
  • A society harmed
  • Putting psychiatry on the couch
  • Prescriptions for reform.

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