Psychiatry under the influence
Subtitle: institutional corruption, social injury, and prescriptions for reform
By: Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove
Contributors: Cosgrove, Lisa, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781137506924; 9781137506948
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Corrupt practices; Pharmaceutical industry; Psychiatry; American Psychiatric Association; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: A case study of institutional corruption; title: Psychiatry adopts a disease model; title: Economies of influence; title: The etiology of mental illness is now known; title: Psychiatry's new drugs; title: Expanding the market; title: Protecting the market; title: The end product : clinical practice guidelines; title: A society harmed; title: Putting psychiatry on the couch; title: Prescriptions for reform.