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  The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment (Hardback) By (author) Joanna Moncrieff

  

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  Short Description for The Myth of the Chemical CureThis 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 comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.
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  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Published: 04 December 2007
  • Format: Hardback 296 pages
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  • Categories: Psychological Methodology | Psychopharmacology | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy
  • ISBN 13: 9780230574311 ISBN 10: 0230574319
  • Sales rank: 915,711

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• This book exposes the traditional view that psychiatric drugs correct chemical imbalances as a dangerous fraud. It traces the emergence of this view and the way it supported the vested interests of the psychiatric profession, the pharmaceutical industry and the modern state. Instead it is proposed that psychiatric drugs 'work' by creating abnormal brain states, which are often unpleasant and impair normal intellectual and emotional functions along with other harmful consequences. Research on antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilisers is examined to demonstrate this thesis and it is suggested that acknowledging the real nature of psychiatric drugs would lead to a more democratic practice of psychiatry.