Mad Science Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Name: Mad Science Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
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ISBN: 9781412849760

ISBN-10: 1412849764

ISBN-13: 9781412849760

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, David Cohen

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When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book’s detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science. Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are not based on convincing research, but on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health, including…

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 358
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.37" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface



Illusions of Psychiatric Progress



The History and Historians of Madness



The "Therapeutic" Coercion of the Mad in the Community



And DSM Said: Let There Be Disorder



The Failure of Descriptive Diagnosis



Dancing with Drugs



From Drugs to Medications-and Back



The Structure of Mad Science


Index