The myth of the chemical cure
Subtitle: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment
By: Joanna Moncrieff.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780230574311
Subjects: Psychopharmacology -- Evaluation; Mental illness -- Chemotherapy -- Evaluation; Psychotropic drugs -- Evaluation; Psychotropic Drugs -- adverse effects; Psychotropic Drugs -- therapeutic use; Mental Disorders -- drug therapy; Psychopharmacology; Treatment Failure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The disease centred model of drug action in psychiatry; title: An alternative drug centred model of drug action; title: Physical treatments and the disease centred model; title: The arrival of the new drugs and the influence of interest groups; title: The birth of the idea of an "antipsychotic"; title: Are neuroleptics effective and specific? a review of the evidence; title: What do neuroleptics really do? a drug centred account; title: The construction of the "antidepressant"; title: Is there such a thing as an antidepressant? a review of the evidence; title: What do antidepressants really do?; title: The idea of special drugs for manic depression; title: Evidence on the action of lithium and mood stabilisers; title: Democratic drug treatment: implications of the drug centred model; title: The myth of the chemical cure.