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Author Moncrieff, Joanna, 1966-

Title The myth of the chemical cure : a critique of psychiatric drug treatment / Joanna Moncrieff.

Publication Info. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Description xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-271) and index.
Contents The disease-centred model of drug action in psychiatry -- An alternative drug-centred model of drug action -- Physical treatments and the disease-centred model -- The arrival of the new drugs and the influence of interest groups -- The birth of the idea of an 'antipsychotic' -- Are neuroleptics effective and specific? a review of the evidence -- What do neuroleptics really do? a drug-centred account -- The construction of the 'antidepressant' -- Is there such a thing as an 'antidepressant'? a review of the evidence -- What do antidepressants really do? -- The idea of special drugs for manic depression (bipolar disorder) -- Evidence on the action of lithium and 'mood stabilisers' -- Democratic drug treatment: implications of the drug-centred model -- The myth of the chemical cure.
Subject Psychopharmacology -- Evaluation.
Psychopharmacology.
Evaluation.
Mental illness -- Chemotherapy -- Evaluation.
Mental illness -- Chemotherapy -- Evaluation.
Mental illness -- Chemotherapy.
Psychotropic drugs -- Evaluation.
Psychotropic drugs.
ISBN 9780230574311
0230574319