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100 1 $aKirk, Stuart A.,$d1945-
245 10 $aMad science :$bpsychiatric coercion, diagnosis, and drugs /$cStuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, & David Cohen.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bTransaction Publishers,$c[2013]
300 $axii, 346 pages :$bill. ;$c24 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIllusions of psychiatric progress -- The history and historians of madness -- The therapeutic coercion of the mad in the community -- And DSM said : let there be disorder -- The failure of descriptive diagnosis -- Dancing with drugs -- From drugs to medications and back -- The structure of mad science.
520 $a"When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science. Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are not based on convincing research, but on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment in the community, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that now controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome." -- Publisher's description.
650 0 $aMental illness$xDiagnosis.
700 1 $aGomory, Tomi.
700 1 $aCohen, David,$d1954-
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