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• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 52,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 April 2016

This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2013

A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored.

• Publisher : Random House
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 October 2009

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 01 February 2002

In Blaming the Brain Elliott Valenstein exposes the many weaknesses inherent in the scientific arguments supporting the widely accepted theory that biochemical imbalances are the main cause of mental illness.

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 26 September 2014

100 Chemical Myths deals with popular yet largely untrue misconceptions and misunderstandings related to chemistry. It contains lucid and concise explanations cut through fallacies and urban legends that are universally relevant

• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 31 December 2011

Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact,

• Publisher : Crown
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 August 2011

Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in

• Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
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• Release Date : 13 May 2024

Part one includes information on some of the key alternative conceptions that have been uncovered by research and general ideas for helping students with the development of scientific conceptions.

• Publisher : Harper Collins
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• Release Date : 12 July 2011

“The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York Times The 50th anniversary edition

• Publisher : AK Press
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• Release Date : 22 June 2022

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades,