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Title: Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker ISBN: 0-7382-0799-3 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating read!
Comment: If you or a loved one is considering seeking help from psychiatry, READ THIS BOOK. If you or a loved one is being treated by psychiatry, READ THIS BOOK. Or if like me, you have been labeled, locked up, drugged and abused by psychiatry, READ THIS BOOK TWICE; once to confirm your beliefs and once to cheer that finally a journalist is documenting the often barbaric and very soft science of psychiatry.
Award winning author Robert Whitaker takes the reader on an amazing journey of the ridiculously abusive "treatment" of those labeled with mental illness. Not only does he expose the barbaric treatments of the past, but also documents the bad science and deceitful claims of efficacy the psychiatric industry is feeding the public today.
Educate BEFORE you medicate. Read Mad In America.
T.D.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mad in America: A Daring Critique of Psychiatry
Comment: Journalist Robert Whitaker does his profession proud in this well-researched, insightful, courageous, and critical book. He dares to ask the question that few in the profession of psychiatry dare to ask: why are the cure rates for schizophrenia so low in America, the most well-developed country in the world?
In the first part of the book, Whitaker provides the reader with a sound history of the brutal and horrifiying practices of American psychiatry (with the exception of the brief "moral treatment" movement in the 19th century). Thus he is able to show that today's psychiatry has not progressed all that much towards healing the suffering of the mentally ill. In fact, psychiatry may be exacerbating suffering in the name of "good science." As Whitaker points out, we don't have to look far in the past for historical precedents for such misguided treatment--the Eugenics movement of the early part of the 20th century, which he documents in detail, is a prime example.
As Whitaker shows, mental patients today may not be seen "lower animals" as they were in the 18th century, but they are now treated as "diseases," not as suffering human beings who may have insight into the causes of their suffering.
In the second half of the book, Whitaker does an especially powerful job of pointing out the damaging effects of neuroleptics--euphemized as "antipsychotics"--which often cause "symptoms" of "worsening mental illness." He shows that once an individual is diagnosed with a mental illness such as schizophrenia, he is likely to remain a drugged, disempowered mental patient for the rest of his life.
I cannot recommend this book enough to both laypeople and mental health professionals who are concerned with the drugging of America, and want to understand how such a sorry state of affairs has come about.
Rating: 1
Summary: A disturbing book from a second-class "reporter"
Comment: The author clearly demonstrates his own biases and betrays the supposedly objectivity against which a good reporter's work should be judged. Thus, Mr. Whitaker demonstrates himself to be a second-class reporter. The book is based on nothing more than poorly-researched and outdated materials.
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Title: Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital by Alex Beam ISBN: 1586481614 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter ISBN: 0192802674 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Toxic Psychiatry : Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry" by Peter R. Breggin ISBN: 0312113668 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Invisible Plague: The Rise of mental Illness from 1750 to the Present by E. Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller ISBN: 0813530032 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 10 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America by Thomas Szasz ISBN: 0275971961 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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