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Peddling Mental Disorder : The Crisis in Modern Psychiatry by Lawrie Reznek is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Peddling Mental Disorder : The Crisis in Modern Psychiatry about?
Psychiatry is a mess. Patients who urgently need help go untreated, while perfectly healthy people are over-diagnosed with serious mental disorders and receive unnecessary medical treatment. The roots of the problem are the vast pharmaceutical industry profits and a diagnostic system--the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)--vulnerable to exploitation. Drug companies have fostered the development of this system, pushing psychiatry to over-extend its domain so that more pe
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lawrie Reznek
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476663067
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Medical, Health & Fitness, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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