Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Marc Notes: 'Psychiatry Under the Influence' investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption. Biographical Note: Robert Whitaker is the author of four books, two of which Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic - tell of the history of psychiatric treatments. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism in 2010. He is a former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA. Lisa Cosgrove isProfessor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA. She is also a clinical psychologist. She has co-edited and co-authored casebooks on the ethical and medico-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of financial conflicts of interest. She received the 2014 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology for her paper "Industry's Colonization of Psychiatry.""Table of Contents: Foreword PART I: SEEDS OF CORRUPTION1. A Case Study of Institutional Corruption 2. Psychiatry Adopts a Disease Model 3. Economies of Influence PART II: SCIENCE CORRUPTED4. The Etiology of Mental Illness is Now Known 5. Psychiatry's New Drugs 6. Expanding the Market 7. Protecting the Market 8. The End Product: Clinical Practice Guidelines PART III: THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS9. A Society Harmed 10. Putting Psychiatry on the Couch 11. Prescriptions for Reform

Contributor Bio:  Whitaker, Robert Robert Whitaker is the author of Mad in America, The Mapmaker's Wife, and On the Laps of Gods, all of which won recognition as "notable books" of the year. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he cowrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.