Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

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Routledge, 05.07.2017 - 358 Seiten
*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book AwardMad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome.When it comes to understanding and treating mental illness, 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 analysis of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science.This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. This paperback edition makes Mad Science accessible to all specialists in the field as well as to the informed public.
 

Inhalt

1 Illusions of Psychiatric Progress
1
2 The History and Historians of Madness
37
3 The Therapeutic Coercion of the Mad in the Community
75
Let There Be Disorder
121
5 The Failure of Descriptive Diagnosis
163
6 Dancing with Drugs
211
7 From Drugs to Medicationsand Back
241
8 The Structure of Mad Science
299
Index
335
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Stuart A. Kirk

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