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The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs

ISBN: 1137277424
ISBN 13: 9781137277428
Autor: Moncrieff, J
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: XIV, 278 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Moncrieff’s 2007 book, The Myth of the Chemical Cure is a best-seller on the Psychology list sales are now over 3,000 copies, including 200 Amazon sales, and it’s still selling in large numbers Myth was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award 2009 and was well-reviewed both in journals and on AmazonAuthor profile: Moncrieff is both an academic and a practicing consultant psychiatrist. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme and wrote a piece for BBC news online The topic matter is of continuing interest not only to students and scholars but also to service users and carers and the general public: recent news articles on the use of anti-psychotics with dementia patientsAuthor’s writing style is accessible and engagingProvides a critical but even-handed examination of the history of antipsychotic drugs, charting how early ‘drug-centred’ ideas have been replace by a ‘disease-centred’ view Examples provided from the UK, US and elsewhereExamines how the marketing of antipsychotic drugs by pharmaceutical companies has influenced the increase in use of these drugs for conditions such as dementia and children with ADHD: antipsychotics were designed to treat people with severe psychiatric problems (psychosis and schizophrenia)

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Beschreibung

A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored.

Autorenporträt

Joanna Moncrieff is a Senior Lecturer at University College London, UK and a practising consultant psychiatrist. She is co-chair person of the Critical Psychiatry Network and author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure.

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