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In
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of psychiatry is that of a failed scientific discipline of medicine. Medicine generally is about the story of progress, but psychiatry's story is that of failure in diagnosis, in therapeutics, and in the ability to deliver science-based care to suffering individuals.
List of contents
- Preface
- PART I: GETTING GOING
- Ch 1. Introduction
- Ch 2. Before Psychopharmacology
- Ch 3. The Rise of Psychopharmacology
- Ch 4. Things Get Rolling
- Ch 5. Depression and Schizophrenia
- Ch 6. Industry: Early Days
- PART II: WORSENING
- Ch 7. DSM
- Ch 8. Science
- Ch 9. KOLs
- Ch 10. Trials Begin
- Ch 11. Trials: Fantasy Patients for Fantasy Diseases
- Ch 12. Trials: Industry Takes Over
- Ch 13. Marketing
- Ch 14. Journals
- Ch 15. FDA
- PART III: SCIENCE DISASTER
- Ch 16. Prozac and Its Cousins
- Ch 17. Sally
- Ch 18. Atypicals
- Ch 19. TMAP
- Ch 20. Fall of Psychopharmacology
- Ch 21. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
About the author
Edward Shorter
Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of the History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Summary
In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of psychiatry is that of a failed scientific discipline of medicine. Medicine generally is about the story of progress, but psychiatry's story is that of failure in diagnosis, in therapeutics, and in the ability to deliver science-based care to suffering individuals.
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This is a very important book. This must be taken as a wakeup call by the whole profession and its associated parts before we recede to the generation and endorsement of false claims and leave sick patients without effective treatment.
