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When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition--univer-sally
known as DSM-III--embodied a radical new method for identifying
psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general
understanding about the research data and the pro-cess that led to
the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial
reconstruction of that moment concen-trates on how a small group of
researchers interpreted their findings about a specific
problem--psychiatric reliability--to promote their beliefs about
mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian
paradigm.
*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and
ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book Award Mad Science argues
that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based
on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address
multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including
the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the
adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the
distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to
improve the mental health outcome. When it comes to understanding
and treating mental illness, distortions of research are not rare,
misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of
success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking
aggrandizement. This book's detailed analysis of coercion and
community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that
these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in
psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science. This
book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social
critique of current mental health practices. The authors are
scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively
about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. This
paperback edition makes Mad Science accessible to all specialists
in the field as well as to the informed public.
*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and
ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book Award Mad Science argues
that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based
on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address
multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including
the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the
adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the
distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to
improve the mental health outcome. When it comes to understanding
and treating mental illness, distortions of research are not rare,
misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of
success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking
aggrandizement. This book's detailed analysis of coercion and
community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that
these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in
psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science. This
book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social
critique of current mental health practices. The authors are
scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively
about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. This
paperback edition makes Mad Science accessible to all specialists
in the field as well as to the informed public.
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