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The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell. The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch Basic Books, 226 pp., $15.99 (paper) Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker Crown, 404 pp., $26.00.

The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell

Bruce Levine Blog. Too Corrupt, Too Insane, and Too Ridiculous to Be Reformed?

Bruce Levine Blog

Even Establishment Psychiatrists Now Distancing Themselves from Their Own Profession April 16th, 2014 What does it tell us about the state of psychiatry when some of the biggest names in the psychiatric establishment are distancing themselves from psychiatry’s diagnostic system and its treatments? In 2013, National Institute Mental Health (NIMH) director Thomas Insel, citing the lack of scientific validity of psychiatry’s official diagnostic manual, the DSM, stated that [...] Psychiatry Admits Its Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change?

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