The skeptical professional's guide to psychiatry : on the risks and benefits of antipsychotics, antidepressants, psychiatric diagnoses, and neuromania /: on the risks and benefits of antipsychotics, antidepressants, psychiatric diagnoses, and neuromania. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charles E. Dean.
• Authors: Dean, Charles E
• Contents: List of Abbreviations; Permissions; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: An Overview of the Dark Ages; Chapter 2. The Biological Revolution: The Middle Years and the Rise of Psychopharmacology; Chapter 3. Has the Biological Revolution Delivered? A Focus on Antipsychotics; Chapter 4. Antipsychotics and the Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality; Chapter 5. Antipsychotics and Mortality in the Elderly with Dementia; Chapter 6. Psychotropic and Antipsychotic Polypharmacy: Common Practice, Good Medicine?; Chapter 7. The Neurologic Consequences of Antipsychotics: From Parkinsonism to Tardive Dyskinesia; Chapter 8. Antidepressants and Depression: Background and Biology; Chapter 9. Antidepressants: Do They Work? If So, When, How Often, and at What Costs?; Chapter 10. Antidepressants and Adverse Events: Falls and Fractures, Vascular Events, Risks in Pregnancy, and Abnormal Movements; Chapter 11. Treatment-Resistant Depression: Combining and Switching Antidepressants, Adding Antipsychotics, and On to Neurotherapeutics; Chapter 12. Desperately Treating Depression: On Psychotogenic and Hallucinogenic Drugs, Anti-Inflammatories, Antidiabetics, Hyperthermia, and Opioids; Chapter 13. Psychiatric Diagnoses: The DSM and the Roots of Failure; Chapter 14. Fear and Loathing at the APA: The DSM-5, The Brain Mapping Quartet, and the Future of Mental Illness; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.8918; Psychopharmacology; Mental illness -- Chemotherapy -- Evaluation; Psychiatry -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000245622; 9781000245585; 9781000245608; 9781003032038
• Related ISBNs: 9780367469313; 9780367469207
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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