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Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.

By: Whitaker, Robert.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 404 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780307452412 (hbk.).Subject(s): Mental illness -- United States | Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing -- United States | Psychiatry -- United StatesDDC classification: 616.89
Contents:
A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was . . . and wasn't told -- Tallying up the profits -- Blueprints for reform.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-393) and index.

A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was . . . and wasn't told -- Tallying up the profits -- Blueprints for reform.