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James Davies - Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good - 9781848316546 - V9781848316546
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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

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Description for Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good Paperback. Controversial and powerful - a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: MBPK; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year - and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?

The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now 'medicalised' into illnesses that require treatment - usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients' well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848316546
SKU
V9781848316546
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About James Davies
James Davies obtained his PhD in medical and social anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is also a qualified psychotherapist (having worked in the NHS), and a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton, London. He has delivered lectures at many universities, including Harvard, Brown, CUNY, Oxford and London, and has written articles about ... Read more

Reviews for Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
[Cracked] should be read by every doctor ... by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen.
Peter Hitchens
Mail on Sunday
Chilling reading
Will Self
Guardian
Davies's book is a potent polemic
Bryan Appleyard
Sunday Times
If, in the world of psychiatry, the DSM is Holy ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good


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