"A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to gr…
"A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to gr…
Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first cen…
Ground-breaking work on the dangers of anti-depressants and why the FDA continues to approve them. Lots of anecdotes, well-written, author will be on tour in the U.S. Good media lining up, very controversial author.
"What if, rather than being dispensers of medication, mental health clinicians and primary care providers treating mental disorders were collaborators with patients in the prescribing relationship? To prescribe more effectively and achieve health equity, Warren Kinghorn and Abra…
"What if, rather than being dispensers of medication, mental health clinicians and primary care providers treating mental disorders were collaborators with patients in the prescribing relationship? To prescribe more effectively and achieve health equity, Warren Kinghorn and Abra…
"What if, rather than being dispensers of medication, mental health clinicians and primary care providers treating mental disorders were collaborators with patients in the prescribing relationship? To prescribe more effectively and achieve health equity, Warren Kinghorn and Abra…
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
