Mad Science
Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
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Publication
2013-04-04 - Transaction Publishers
Language
English
Word Count
89,500 words, Guess
Page Count
358 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27591167M
- ISBN-139781412849760
- ISBN-101412849764
- OCLC Control Number808769553
- OCLC Control Numbermadsciencepsychi0000kirk
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012035176
- Amazon1412849764
Classifications
- LCCWM 11 AA1
Description
"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 the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment in the community, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that now controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects
Other Editions
- Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
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