Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

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Icon, 2013 - Business & Economics - 327 pages
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.

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About the author (2013)

James Davies is a psychological therapist who lectures in psychology and social anthropology. He holds a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford and has worked for the NHS and the mental health charity Mind.

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