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Web End = Psychiatry Under the Inuence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 241 pp, Paperback $30.00
Fred Ernst1
Published online: 18 July 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Psychiatry Under the Inuence is the product of the authors work during their 1-year fellowship at Harvard Universitys Safra Center for Ethics. Applying a template used in the study of political corruption, the authors provide a thorough case study analysis of organized psychiatry under the inuence of powerful pharmaceutical industry manipulation and the protection of guild interests orchestrated by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The APA obtained substantial help from groups of pharma-supported researchers spinning questionable interpretations of ndings primarily from drug outcome studies to nurture an impression of a genuine medical discipline reborn on neuroscience foundations. Whitaker and Cosgrove document the timing and signicance of interrelated events on the emergence of a profession eager for a respectable seat at the table with its disease-based medical colleagues. Reasonable prescriptions for reform are embedded in a refreshingly positive philosophical view of mankind.
Key psychopharmacological treatment studies of important diagnostic groups are meticulously dissected revealing a 35-year history of outcome research communicated to the medical professions and society generally through clever but deceptive marketing rather than sound research dissemination. The reader nave to the extent of this problem will likely be shocked into an utter state of disbelief from the revelations about psychopharmacological research tactics across the time period and...