The Sedated Society The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Davies, James (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Bioethics.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Critical psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Personality and Social Psychology.

This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emergi...