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Cracked

Name: Cracked
Author: James Davies

The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry

James Davies,

372 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Cracked

The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry

James Davies,

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A “thought-provoking” look at the psychiatric profession, the overprescribing of pharmaceuticals, and the cost to patients’ health ( Booklist ).
In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry, without solid scientific justification, keeps expanding the number of mental disorders it believes to exist. This revealing volume shows that these issues can be explained by one startling fact: In recent decades, psychiatry has become so motivated by power that it has put the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches above its patients’ well-being. Readers will be shocked and dismayed to discover that psychiatry, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself. In a style reminiscent of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science and investigative in tone, James Davies reveals psychiatry’s hidden failings and how the field of study must change if it is ever to win back its patients’ trust.

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Publisher

Pegasus Books

Year

2013

ISBN

9781453299111

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Psychiatry & Mental Health

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Chapter One: Psychiatry’s Early Breakdown and the Rise of the DSM
Chapter Two: The DSM—A Great Work … of Fiction?
Chapter Three: The Medicalization of Misery
Chapter Four: The Depressing Truth about Happy Pills
Chapter Five: Dummy Pills and the Healing Power of Belief
Chapter Six: Mental Oddities and the Pills that Cause Them
Chapter Seven: Bio-babble?
Chapter Eight: Money and Power Ruling Head and Heart
Chapter Nine: But They Make Us Rich
Chapter Ten: When Science Fails, Marketing Works
Chapter Eleven: The Psychiatric Myth
Chapter Twelve: Psychiatric Imperialism
Chapter Thirteen: How to Fix the Cracks?
A Final Warning
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
About the Author
Copyright