Psychiatry Under the Influence

Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-50694-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 4866 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitaker, R.

Cosgrove, L.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword PART I: SEEDS OF CORRUPTION 1. A Case Study of Institutional Corruption 2. Psychiatry Adopts a Disease Model 3. Economies of Influence PART II: SCIENCE CORRUPTED 4. The Etiology of Mental Illness is Now Known 5. Psychiatry's New Drugs 6. Expanding the Market 7. Protecting the Market 8. The End Product: Clinical Practice Guidelines PART III: THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS 9. A Society Harmed 10. Putting Psychiatry on the Couch 11. Prescriptions for Reform

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Whitaker is the author of four books, two of which—Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic - tell of the history of psychiatric treatments. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism in 2010. He is a former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA.
 
Lisa Cosgrove is Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA.  She is also a clinical psychologist. She has co-edited and co-authored casebooks on the ethical and medico-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of financial conflicts of interest. She received the 2014 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology for her paper "Industry's Colonization of Psychiatry."