James Davies

Cracked (eBook, ePUB)

Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed, and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952, to 374 today? Psychological therapist James Davies illustrates how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ wellbeing. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing. Reminiscent of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science, Cracked takes apart a profession that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself - and explores how psychiatry must change to win trust back.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848315570
• Artikelnr.: 38438381

Autorenporträt

James Davies obtained his PhD in medical and social anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is also a qualified psychotherapist (having worked in the NHS), and a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton, London. He has delivered lectures at many universities, including Harvard, Brown, CUNY, Oxford and London, and has written articles about psychiatry for the New Scientist, Therapy Today and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. He is author of The Importance of Suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent (Routledge, 2011). He lives with his wife and daughter in Shepherd's Bush, London.

Rezensionen

'[Cracked] should be read by every doctor ... by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen.' Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday