Psychiatry under the influence : institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform

Psychiatry under the influence : institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform /

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry during the past 35 years. The book documents how the psychiatric establishment regularly misled the Ame...

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Main Authors: Whitaker, Robert (Author), Cosgrove, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Subjects:
American Psychiatric Association.
Psychiatry > United States > History.
Psychiatric ethics > United States.
Conflict of Interest
Ethics, Institutional > history
History, 20th Century
Psychiatry > history
Psychiatry > ethics
Societies, Medical > history
United States
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A case study of institutional corruption
  • Psychiatry adopts a disease model
  • Economies of influence
  • The etiology of mental illness is now known
  • Psychiatry's new drugs
  • Expanding the market
  • Protecting the market
  • The end product : clinical practice guidelines
  • A society harmed
  • Putting psychiatry on the couch
  • Prescriptions for reform.

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