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The sedated society : the causes and harms of our psychiatric drug epidemic / James Davies, editor.
- Title
- The sedated society : the causes and harms of our psychiatric drug epidemic / James Davies, editor.
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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- Additional Authors
- Davies, James
- Description
- xvi, 318 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- This edited volume assembles a team of global experts in critical psychopharmacology to address the causes and consequences of our current psychiatric prescribing epidemic. Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside emerging clinical and scientific data exposing the poor outcomes and harms these medications often cause, this book reveals that their commercial success cannot be explained by their therapeutic efficacy.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / James Davies -- Psychopharmacology is not evidence-bases medicine / Peter C. Gøtzsche -- Starting young : children cultured into becoming psycho-pharmaceutical consumers -- The example of childhood depression / Sami Timimi -- Opium and the people : the prescription psychopharmaceutial epidemic in historical context / Joanna Moncrieff -- Desperate for a fix : my story of pharmaceutical misadventure / Luke Montagu -- Neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs : an epidemic of tardive dyskinesia and related brain injuries afflicting tens of millions / Peter R. Breggin -- Psychiatry under the influence / Robert Whitaker -- Political pills : psychopharaceuticals and neoliberalism as mutually supporting / James Davies -- Psychopharmaceuticals as "essential medicine's : local negotiations of global access to psychotherapeutic medicines in India / China Mills -- The public and private lives of psychopharmaceuticals in the global south / Stefan Ecks -- A manifesto for psychological health and wellbeing / Peter Kinderman.
- ISBN
- 3319449109
- 9783319449104
- 9783319449111 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 953842876
- SCSB-12634267
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library