Mad science : psychiatric coercion, diagnosis, and drugs
*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
Print Book, English, 2013
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 2013
xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781412849760, 1412849764
935892629
Preface1. Illusions of Psychiatric Progress2. The History and Historians of Madness3. The "Therapeutic" Coercion of the Mad in the Community4. And DSM Said: Let There Be Disorder5. The Failure of Descriptive Diagnosis6. Dancing with Drugs7. From Drugs to Medications—and Back8. The Structure of Mad ScienceIndex