Carlat, Daniel J.
Summary: Recommends specific reforms and argues that psychiatry has shifted toward a medicine-based system that is subject to instant and erroneous diagnoses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CARSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, risk factors, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental-health concerns of children and other groups, along with tips for maintaining mental wellness. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2021
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Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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Summary: Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon--capture--is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 KESLuhrmann, T. M. (Tanya M.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2008