Psychiatry Under the Influence [electronic resource] : Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform /
Whitaker, R.author.
Cosgrove, L.author.
Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Seeds of Corruption; CHAPTER ONE A Case Study of Institutional Corruption; CHAPTER TWO Psychiatry Adopts a Disease Model; CHAPTER THREE Economies of Influence; Part II Science Corrupted; CHAPTER FOUR The Etiology of Mental Illness Is Now Known; CHAPTER FIVE Psychiatry's New Drugs; CHAPTER SIX Expanding the Market; CHAPTER SEVEN Protecting the Market; CHAPTER EIGHT The End Product: Clinical Practice Guidelines; Part III The Search for Solutions; CHAPTER NINE A Society Harmed
CHAPTER TEN Putting Psychiatry on the CouchCHAPTER ELEVEN Prescriptions for Reform; Notes; Index
Includes index.
Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption.
American Psychiatric Association.
Social medicine.
Psychiatry.
Critical psychology.
Life sciences.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Medical Sociology.
Psychiatry.
Critical Psychology.
Life Sciences, general.
Community and Environmental Psychology.