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Hardcover:
9780820348209, titled "Mot: A Memoir" | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9781937163198 | 1 edition (Underland Pr, April 14, 2015), cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780813560649 | 1 edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, April 19, 2013), cover price $62.50
Paperback:
9780813560656 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $36.95
An expose of the current state of psychiatry that reveals how the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches has compromised the patients' wellbeing. 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 patientsâ well being. Readers 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 Goldacreâs Bad Science and investigative in tone, James Davies reveals psychiatryâs hidden failings and how the field of study must change if it is to ever win back its patientsâ trust.
Hardcover:
9781605984735 | 1 edition (Pegasus Books, August 1, 2013), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An expose of the current state of psychiatry that reveals how the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches has compromised the patients' wellbeing.
Paperback:
9781605986128 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, August 15, 2014), cover price $15.95
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. Our mental health "system" can feel like a bewildering and frustrating maze. How can you tell that someone has a mental illness? What are the first and best steps for you to take? Where do you go to find the right care? The Family Guide to Mental Health Care is the first comprehensive print resource for the millions of people who have loved ones suffering from some kind of mental illness. In this book, families can find the answers to their most urgent questions. What medications are helpful and are some as dangerous as I think? Is there a way to navigate privacy laws so I can discuss my adult daughter's treatment with her doctor? Is my teenager experiencing typical adolescent distress or an illness? From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders, schizophrenia, and much more, readers will learn what to do and how to help.Real-life scenarios and authoritative information are written in a compassionate, reader-friendly way, including checklists to bring to a doctor's appointment so you can ask the right questions. For readers who fear they will never see the light at the end of the tunnel, this book gives hope and a path forward.As one of the nation's leading voices on quality care in mental health, Dr. Lloyd Sederer has played a singular role in advancing services for those with mental illness. Now, the wealth of his expertise and clear guidance is at your disposal. From the first signs of a problem to sorting through the variety of treatment options, you and your family will be able to walk into a doctor's office know what to do and what to ask.
Hardcover:
9781410459916 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 7, 2013), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness.
9780393707946 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 15, 2013), cover price $25.95
Paperback:
9780393710632 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 19, 2015, cover price $18.95
9780297817673, titled "Robert Graves and the White Goddess 1940-85" | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | also contains Robert Graves and the White Goddess 1940-85 | About this edition: Robert Graves maintained that a romantic poet can only be inspired by the other woman.
Paperback:
9780674066205 | Belknap Pr, November 12, 2012, cover price $19.00
In this astonishing and startling audiobook, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nationâs children. What is going on?Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix âchemical imbalancesâ in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startledâand dismayedâto discover what was reported in the scientific journals.Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: During the past fifty years, when investigators looked at how psychiatric drugs affected long-term outcomes, what did they find? Did they discover that the drugs help people stay well? Function better? Enjoy good physical health? Or did they find that these medications, for some paradoxical reason, increase the likelihood that people will become chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone to physical illness?This is the first audiobook to look at the merits of psychiatric medications through the prism of long-term results. Are long-term recovery rates higher for medicated or unmedicated schizophrenia patients? Does taking an antidepressant decrease or increase the risk that a depressed person will become disabled by the disorder? Do bipolar patients fare better today than they did forty years ago, or much worse? When the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studied the long-term outcomes of children with ADHD, did they determine that stimulants provide any benefit?By the end of this review of the outcomes literature, readers are certain to have a haunting question of their own: Why have the results from these long-term studiesâall of which point to the same startling conclusionâbeen kept from the public?In this compelling history, Whitaker also tells the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. Finally, he reports on innovative programs of psychiatric care in Europe and the United States that are producing good long-term outcomes. Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up.
Hardcover:
9780307452412 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, April 13, 2010), cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9780307452429 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, August 2, 2011), cover price $16.00
Miscellaneous:
9780307452436 | Crown Pub, April 13, 2010, cover price $26.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781491513217 | 1 mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 29, 2014), cover price $9.99
9781455883417 | 1 una edition (Brilliance Audio, July 17, 2012), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In this astonishing and startling audiobook, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?
9781455884193 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, July 17, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In this astonishing and startling audiobook, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?
Paperback:
9781606926413 | Nova Science Pub Inc, July 28, 2009, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Book annotation not available for this title.
Hardcover:
9780297815341 | Orion Pub Co, August 1, 1996, cover price $45.00
Paperback:
9780297817673 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | also contains The Family Guide to Mental Health Care | About this edition: Robert Graves maintained that a romantic poet can only be inspired by the other woman.
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