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This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often cause, their commercial success cannot be explained by their therapeutic efficacy.
Chapters from an interdisciplinary team of global experts in critical psychopharmacology rigorously examine how pharmaceutical sponsorship and marketing, diagnostic inflation, the manipulation and burying of negative clinical trials, lax medication regulation, and neoliberal public health policies have all been implicated in ever-rising psycho-pharmaceutical consumption. This volume will ignite a long-overdue public debate. It will be of interest to professionals in the field of mental health and researchers ranging from sociology of health, to medical anthropology and the political economy of health.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Psychopharmacology Is Not Evidence-­Based Medicine
- 3: Starting Young: Children Cultured into Becoming Psycho-Pharmaceutical ConsumersâThe Example of Childhood Depression
- 4: Opium and the People: The Prescription Psychopharmaceutical Epidemic in Historical Context
- 5: Desperate for a Fix: My Story of Pharmaceutical Misadventure
- 6: Neuroleptic (Antipsychotic) Drugs: An Epidemic of Tardive Dyskinesia and Related Brain Injuries Afflicting Tens of Millions
- 7: Psychiatry Under the Influence
- 8: Political Pills: Psychopharmaceuticals and Neoliberalism as Mutually Supporting
- 9: Psychopharmaceuticals as âEssential Medicinesâ: Local Negotiations of Global Access to Psychotherapeutic Medicines in India
- 10: The Public and Private Lives of Psychopharmaceuticals in the Global South
- 11: A Manifesto for Psychological Health and Wellbeing
- Index