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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good (Paperback)
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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good (Paperback)

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Published: 06/03/2014
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Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year - and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?

The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now 'medicalised' into illnesses that require treatment - usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients' well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing.

Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.

Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781848316546
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 240 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 17 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

[Cracked] should be read by every doctor ... by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen. - Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday

Chilling reading - Will Self, Guardian

Davies's book is a potent polemic - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

If, in the world of psychiatry, the DSM is Holy Scripture, Cracked is set to become a heretical text. - Robert Crampton, The Times Magazine

A profoundly disturbing look at the world of Big Pharma ... This is an important book for anyone who has an interest in mental health. - Daily Mail

Builds a disturbing picture of a profession that is in thrall to pharmaceutical companies - Michael Mosley, BBC Focus

An eye-opening and persuasive work - Publishers Weekly

[A] diligent study - Financial Times

A well-written book ... a positive contribution to the debate about whether psychiatry can become a more open practice. - Therapy Today

Disturbing and uncompromising - Kirkus Reviews

A very controversial, fascinating and powerful read ... full of balanced and reasonable arguments. I would strongly urge all mental health professionals, those in the caring professions as well anybody interested in mental health to read this book. - The Psychologist

An engrossing book, full of interviews with patients and professionals - GP Magazine

I couldn't put the book down. It is totally engaging, as controversial as it is compelling, and as erudite as it is enjoyable ... The book deserves to be a bestseller and should be read by every mental health professional - International Review of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

I, personally, applaud a work that can shine a light into the murky corners of dubious practice' - Alan Pope, Sitegeist

This is an excellent book....[it] careens, almost literally, from one psychiatric outrage to the next ... I strongly recommend this book. - Dr Phil Hickey, Behaviourism and Mental Health

This thought-provoking book will make people think twice before sitting on a psychiatrist's couch or filling a prescription - Booklist

This is a very well-written book - intellectually sound, but written in an accessible way ... It should be read by all mental health professionals, by all politicians and policy makers charged with shaping future mental health provision' - Dr Neil Thompson, Social Justice Solutions

You will be illuminated and often shocked and certainly made to think more about how you view the children in your care. Every teacher should read it - International School Magazine

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“And cracked it is..”

Cracked. That’s the only possible way I can describe this book. Oh it made me angry. Livid. And I could only dream about ever being able to write as good and fitting a review as Andrew Solomon did in his essay “Smug... More

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“Excellent”

I very much enjoyed reading this excellent book. There are an increasing amount of books out on this subject but none exposes psychiatry in the way Dr James Davies dos: through the mouth of its practioners. This... More

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“Life changing”

Why do we not all know this information? It was a shock to read how we are being conned by the drug companies into taking so many anti-depressants when a placebo is just as effective in many cases. I've handed my... More

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