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List of Illustrations | p. vii |
List of Figures | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Preface: Rational Antipsychiatry | p. xi |
An Illusion of Progress | |
A Smashing Success? | p. 3 |
The Appliance of Science: The Emergence of Psychiatry as a Medical Discipline | p. 26 |
Therapeutic Innovation at the End of the Asylum Era | p. 42 |
Dissent and Resolution: The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry | p. 69 |
Three Myths about Mental Illness | |
People or Plants? The Myth that Psychiatric Diagnoses are Meaningful | p. 89 |
The Fundamental Error of Psychiatry: The Myth that Psychiatric Disorders are Genetic Diseases | p. 113 |
Brains, Minds and Psychosis: The Myth that Mental Illnesses are Brain Diseases | p. 148 |
Medicine for Madness | |
Science, Profit and Politics in the Conduct of Clinical Trials | p. 185 |
Less is Probably Better: The Benefits and Costs of Antipsychotics | p. 214 |
The Virtue of Kindness: Is Psychotherapy Effective for Severe Mental Illness? | p. 242 |
What Kind of Psychiatry Do You Want? | p. 262 |
Notes | p. 289 |
Index | p. 351 |
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