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

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

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Main Authors: Whitaker, Robert (Author), Cosgrove, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American Psychiatric Association > Corrupt practices.
American Psychiatric Association.
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices.
Psychiatry > United States > History.
Psychiatry > Moral and ethical aspects.
Psychiatry > United States > history.
Societies, Medical > United States > history.
Conflict of Interest > United States.
Ethics, Institutional > United States > history.
History, 20th Century > United States.
Psychiatry > ethics > United States.
Corruption.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Psychiatry.
United States.
History.
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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