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Cracked, Why Psychiatry is Doing more Harm than Good

Author: James Davies

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric medications prescribed - 47 million prescriptions for antidepressants in the UK alone last year - and why, with no solid scientific...

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric medications prescribed - 47 million prescriptions for antidepressants in the UK alone last year - and why, with no solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders increased from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?

The everyday difficulties and obstacles of life are now medicalized into...

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Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric medications prescribed - 47 million prescriptions for antidepressants in the UK alone last year - and why, with no solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders increased from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?

The everyday difficulties and obstacles of life are now medicalized into illnesses requiring treatment - usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychotherapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for the general public how psychiatry has placed wealth and medical status above the well-being of patients.

The list of accusations is damning: negative drug trials often concealed, antidepressants working as well as placebos, research regularly manipulated to produce positive results, doctors lured by lucrative gains from pharmaceutical companies creating more disorders and prescribing more drugs, as well as ethical, scientific, and therapeutic flaws unfairly hidden behind mass marketing.

"Cracked" reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has in fact helped itself.

Pages: 336, Dimensions: 13x13cm

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Author
James Davies
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Language
English
Subtitle
Why Psychiatry is Doing more Harm than Good
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
336
Publication Date
2014
Dimensions
13x19.8 cm
ISBN-13
9781848316546

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Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric medications prescribed - 47 million prescriptions for antidepressants in the UK alone last year - and why, with no solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders increased from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?

The everyday difficulties and obstacles of life are now medicalized into illnesses requiring treatment - usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychotherapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for the general public how psychiatry has placed wealth and medical status above the well-being of patients.

The list of accusations is damning: negative drug trials often concealed, antidepressants working as well as placebos, research regularly manipulated to produce positive results, doctors lured by lucrative gains from pharmaceutical companies creating more disorders and prescribing more drugs, as well as ethical, scientific, and therapeutic flaws unfairly hidden behind mass marketing.

"Cracked" reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has in fact helped itself.

Pages: 336, Dimensions: 13x13cm

Manufacturer

Author
James Davies
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Language
English
Subtitle
Why Psychiatry is Doing more Harm than Good
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
336
Publication Date
2014
Dimensions
13x19.8 cm
ISBN-13
9781848316546

Important information

Specifications are collected from official manufacturer websites. Please verify the specifications before proceeding with your final purchase. If you notice any problem you can report it here.

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