Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America /
Robert Whitaker.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
- xi, 404 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-393) and index.
A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was . . . and wasn't told -- Tallying up the profits -- Blueprints for reform.
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Mental illness--United States. Psychotropic drugs--Prescribing--United States. Psychiatry--United States.