1st Edition
Mad Science Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
Edited By Stuart A. Kirk
Copyright 2013
358 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
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*Winner of an honorable mention from the Society for Social Work and Research for Outstanding Social Work Book Award Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric... Read more
Preface1. Illusions of Psychiatric Progress2. The History and Historians of Madness 3. 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
Biography
Stuart A. Kirk
