The Sedated Society : the Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic /: the Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Davies.
• Editors: Davies, James
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (XVI, 318 pages 1 illustration in color.)
• Subjects: 150.19; Psychology; Bioethics; Psychotherapy; Counseling; Personality; Social psychology; Critical psychology; Psychotropic drugs; Psychotropic drugs -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Bioethics; Counseling; Critical psychology; Personality; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychotropic drugs; Social psychology; Developing countries; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319449111; 3319449117
• Related ISBNs: 9783319449104; 3319449109
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 16, 2017).
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