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

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 is Professor 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.

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

Author: Cosgrove, Lisa, Whitaker, Robert

ISBN: 9781137506924

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-04-23

Number of Pages: 241

Weight: 0.3630 kg

This is an extraordinary piece of work that should be read by every mental health professional, minimally. The book might also serve well as a supplemental advanced undergraduate or graduate textbook in a psychopathology or even a research methods class. Where research methods courses separate good from bad science, Whitaker and Cosgrove have now provided us with numerous examples of bad science to which we can now add, corrupt science. (Fred Ernst, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Vol. 46, 2016)