Cracked
Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
by James Davies
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Pub Date May 09 2013 | Archive Date Feb 03 2014
Description
Controversial and powerful – a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry
Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year – and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?
The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now ‘medicalised’ into illnesses that require treatment – usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing.
Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.
B-format paperback edition will be published March 2014.
About the Author
Dr James Davies gained his PhD from Oxford University, during which
time he trained as a psychotherapist. He has worked for the NHS, the
mental health charity Mind and currently lectures at the University of
Roehampton in psychology and anthropology. He is the author of The
Importance of Suffering (Routledge, 2012) and has written for several
publications including New Scientist, Therapy Today and the Harvard
Divinity Bulletin.
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Advance Praise
'Davies’s book is a potent polemic'
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
'[Cracked] should be read by every doctor ... by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen.'
Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
'If, in the world of psychiatry, the DSM is Holy Scripture, Cracked is set to become a heretical text.' Robert Crampton, Times Magazine
'The sections of [Davies'] book that deal in particular with the way big pharma has moved into markets outside the English-speaking world and effected a wholesale cultural change in their perception of sadness (rebranding it, if you will, as chemically treatable "depression"), simply in order to flog their dubious little blue pills, make for chilling reading.
Will Self, Guardian
'Builds a disturbing picture of a profession that is in thrall to pharmaceutical companies'
Michael Mosley, BBC Focus
'An eye-opening and persuasive work'
Publishers Weekly
'[A] diligent study'
Financial Times
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781848315563 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
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