Mad in America
Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
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An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy.
The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.
A haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.
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Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important audiobook is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and "eureka!" moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee's signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical book not just for those in the medical profession but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being are being treated.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Insightful, sincere and succinct. Not Mukherjee's best.
- De Saurav en 12-20-15
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Crazy Like Us
- The Globalization of the American Psyche
- De: Ethan Watters
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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He is a reporter...
- De Briana en 05-07-18
De: Ethan Watters
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Saving Normal
- An Insider’s Revolt Against out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
- De: Allen Frances MD
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: Stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Right on the money
- De Mentecuerpo en 03-29-19
De: Allen Frances MD
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The Emperor’s New Drugs
- Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
- De: Irving Kirsch PhD
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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Do antidepressants work, or are they no better than placebos? Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch spent years referring patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs. Eventually, however, he decided to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. With 15 years of research, Kirsch demonstrates that what everyone “knew” about antidepressants is wrong; what the medical community considered a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must-read!
- De Frank Dunford en 12-22-18
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The Myth of Mental Illness
- Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
- De: Thomas S. Szasz MD
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good format for initial exposure to the material.
- De Anonymous User en 11-29-21
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- De: Adam Rutherford
- Narrado por: Greg Patmore
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America. With disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century, despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring questions, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the scientific impossibility of its realization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- De Roy en 01-11-25
De: Adam Rutherford
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We've Been Too Patient
- Voices from Radical Mental Health—Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model
- De: L. D. Green - editor, Kelechi Ubozoh - editor, Robert Whitaker - foreword
- Narrado por: Dara Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities.
De: L. D. Green - editor, y otros
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The Mapmaker's Wife
- A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
- De: Robert Whitaker
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good. Could have been great…
- De Crys H en 07-01-22
De: Robert Whitaker
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Mind Fixers
- Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
- De: Anne Harrington
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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In the 1980s, American psychiatry announced that it was time to toss aside Freudian ideas of mental disorder because the true path to understanding and treating mental illness lay in brain science, biochemistry, and drugs. This sudden call to revolution, however, was not driven by any scientific breakthroughs. Nor was it as unprecedented as it seemed. Why had previous efforts stalled? Was this latest call really any different? In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington offers the first comprehensive history of the troubled search for the biological basis of mental illness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A summary relevant to each of us
- De R3 en 04-28-19
De: Anne Harrington
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Psychonauts
- Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
- De: Mike Jay
- Narrado por: Rachel Perry
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem, and the long tradition of self-experimentation began to disappear. Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Austin en 07-20-24
De: Mike Jay
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Psychiatry
- The Science of Lies
- De: Thomas Szasz
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Over four hours of rant, with lack of rationale
- De Michael en 04-11-12
De: Thomas Szasz
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- De: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrado por: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important story of fraud really well told
- De ReallyNelie en 12-27-19
De: Susannah Cahalan
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- De: Kate Moore
- Narrado por: Angela Brazil
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- De B. C. French en 06-07-17
De: Kate Moore
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No More Tears
- The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
- De: Gardiner Harris
- Narrado por: Gardiner Harris
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool next to him, who happened to be a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson. Her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris would cover the company—and the entire pharmaceutical industry—for the Times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolute Must Read!
- De Libbiec en 04-21-25
De: Gardiner Harris
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Blind Spots
- When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
- De: Marty Makary MD
- Narrado por: Marty Makary MD
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem. The path to medical mishaps can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping—but the truth is essential to our health.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hindsight is 20/20
- De LawyerLady en 10-09-24
De: Marty Makary MD
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Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition
- De: Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy
- Narrado por: Brian Arens
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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IFS reveals how the subpersonalities or parts of each individual's psyche relate to each other like members of a family, and how - just as in a family - polarization among parts can lead to emotional suffering. IFS originator Richard Schwartz and master clinician Martha Sweezy explain core concepts and provide practical guidelines for implementing IFS with clients who are struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, and other behavioral problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Internal Family Systems Therapy - Novice review
- De Jacqui en 12-30-20
De: Richard C. Schwartz, y otros
Mental Illness in America - An American Tragedy
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