Mad Science - Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis and Drugs

Informationen zum Autor Stuart A. Kirk Klappentext *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 Zusammenfassung *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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Illusions of Psychiatric Progress 2. The History and Historians of Madness 3. The "Therapeutic" Coercion of the Mad in the Community 4. And DSM Said: Let There Be Disorder 5. The Failure of Descriptive Diagnosis 6. Dancing with Drugs 7. From Drugs to Medications—and Back 8. The Structure of Mad Science Index

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• Authors: Stuart A Kirk, Stuart A. Kirk, Stuart A. Gomory Kirk
• Assisted by: Stuart A Kirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9781412849760
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-4976-0
• No. of pages: 325
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works