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Psychiatry Under the Influence : Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform / by R. Whitaker, L. Cosgrove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitaker, R., Author.
- Cosgrove, L., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Psychiatry.
- Critical psychology.
- Life sciences.
- Community psychology.
- Medical Sociology.
- Critical Psychology.
- Life Sciences.
- Community Psychology.
- Local Subjects:
- Medical Sociology.
- Psychiatry.
- Critical Psychology.
- Life Sciences.
- Community Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349505982
- 1349505986
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