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Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than
patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America,
medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments
for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles,
and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy.
The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in
the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is
perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines
how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to
prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the
old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side
effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book-updated with a new
introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments
and trends-Mad in America raises important questions about our
obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we
value most about the human mind.
This book offers a warning that American children are receiving
increased chemical treatment from psychiatrists and provides a
primer on how to improve the emotional health of kids without
drugs. "Maelstrom" is an apt metaphor for the inexorable
deterioration many children experience inside the mental health
system. Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological
Labels and "Therapeutic" Drugs Hurt Children and Families
challenges current treatment practices and addresses the critically
important issue of excessive prescribing of psychiatric medications
to children. This encyclopedic work reveals "inside the system"
information, emphasizing the theoretical divide at the root of the
controversy over diagnosis and treatment. It explains how the
1990s, "decade of the brain" replaced talk therapy with biochemical
treatments, leading to the hegemony of the pharmaceutical
industry—and subsequently the massive drugging of children.
Author Elizabeth E. Root details common diagnoses and treatments,
explaining up-to-date brain research, with some surprising
interpretations, and noting dangerous national precedents to mental
screening. Finally, she illuminates pathways toward solutions and
healthier families, sharing nonpsychiatric explanations for the
nation's increase of troubled children and the rationale and
research supporting non-drug, alternative approaches to childhood
distress.
"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the
human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so
often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait,
too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in
which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people
lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny's careful
historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions
give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be
lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us." --Oliver Sacks
"Fascinating...The haunting thing about the suitcase owners is that
it's so easy to identify with them." --Newsweek When Willard State
Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New
York State's largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a
forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients
was discovered. Using the possessions found in these suitcases
along with institutional records and doctors' notes from patient
sessions, Darby Penney, a leading advocate of patients' rights, and
Peter Stastny, a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker, were able
to reconstruct the lives of ten patients who resided at Willard
during the first half of the twentieth century. The Lives They Left
Behind tells their story. In addition to these human portraits, the
book contains over 100 photographs as well as valuable historical
background on how this state-funded institution operated. As it
restores the humanity of the individuals it so poignantly evokes,
The Lives They Left Behind reveals the vast historical inadequacies
of a psychiatric system that has yet to heal itself.
In this astonishing and startling book, 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 nation's children. What is going
on?
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"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 "chemical imbalances" 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 startled--and dismayed--to 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 book 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 studies--all of which point to the
same startling conclusion--been 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.
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... on occasion of the death of the Rev. T. Stratten.Publisher:
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