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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Davies, James (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Psychopharmacology is not Evidence-Based Medicine; Peter C. Gøtzsche
• Chapter 2. Starting Young: Children Cultured into Becoming Psycho-Pharmaceutical Consumers – The Example of Childhood Depression; Sami Timimi
• Chapter 3. Opium and the People: The Prescription Psychopharmaceutical Epidemic in Historical Context; Joanna Moncrieff
• Chapter 4. Desperate for a Fix: My Story of Pharmaceutical Misadventure; Luke Montagu
• Chapter 5. Neuroleptic (Antipsychotic) Drugs: An Epidemic of Tardive Dyskinesia and Related Brain Injuries Afflicting Tens of Millions; Peter R. Breggin
• Chapter 6. Psychiatry Under the Influence; Robert Whitaker
• Chapter 7. Political Pills: Psychopharmaceuticals and Neoliberalism as Mutually Supporting; James Davies
• Chapter 8. Psychopharmaceuticals as ‘Essential Medicines’: Local Negotiations of Global Access to Psychotherapeutic Medicines in India; China Mills
• Chapter 9. The Public and Private Lives of Psychopharmaceuticals in the Global South; Stefan Ecks
• Chapter 10. A Manifesto for Psychological Health and Wellbeing; Peter Kinderman. .