Mad Science
Subtitle: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: Apr 04, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781412849760
Description: "When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science. Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are not based on convincing research, but on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment in the community, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that now controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs