Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Figures viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Preface: Rational Antipsychiatry xi
7. PART ONE. AN ILLUSION OF PROGRESS
8. 1. A Smashing Success? 3
9. 2. The Appliance of Science: The Emergence of Psychiatry as a Medical Discipline 26
10. 3. Therapeutic Innovation at the End of the Asylum Era 42
11. 4. Dissent and Resolution: The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry 69
12. PART TWO. THREE MYTHS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS
13. 5. People or Plants? The Myth that Psychiatric Diagnoses are Meaningful 89
14. 6. The Fundamental Error of Psychiatry: The Myth that Psychiatric Disorders are Genetic Diseases 113
15. 7. Brains, Minds and Psychosis: The Myth that Mental Illnesses are Brain Diseases 148
16. PART THREE. MEDICINE FOR MADNESS
17. 8. Science, Profit and Politics in the Conduct of Clinical Trials 185
18. 9. Less is Probably Better: The Benefits and Costs of Antipsychotics 214
19. 10. The Virtue of Kindness: Is Psychotherapy Effective for Severe Mental Illness? 242
20. 11. What Kind of Psychiatry Do You Want? 262
21. Notes 289
22. Index 351