An expose of the current state of psychiatry that reveals how the
pursuit of pharmaceutical riches has compromised the patients'
well-being.
In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on
psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has
become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric
drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why
psychiatry, without solid scientific justification, keeps expanding the
number of mental disorders it believes to exist.
This revealing volume shows that these issues can be explained by one
startling fact: in recent decades psychiatry has become so motivated by
power that it has put the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches above its
patients' well being. Listeners will be shocked and dismayed to discover
that psychiatry, in the name of helping others, has actually been
helping itself. In a style reminiscent of Ben Goldacre's Bad Science and
investigative in tone, James Davies reveals psychiatry's hidden failings
and how the field of study must change if it is to ever win back its
patients' trust.