Peddling Mental Disorder: The Crisis in Modern Psychiatry (Paperback)

from wellreadcatlady

I received a free copy from the publish in return for an honest review.Peddling Mental Disorder explores how Big Pharma is the not so invisible hand behind the rise of mental disorders. Basically Big Pharma has a hand in every aspect of mental health. They pay for trips, dinners, straight up give...

from Sovranty

This is an interesting perspective of drug therapy in the United States. It lends to the strategy of medicating rather than building coping strategies or other methods of assisting a patient through an ordeal. Reznek essentially asks which comes first: the disease or the drug?

from snash

The book is superb in its taking on of the pharmaceutical industry for its disease mongering and drug pushing. It also acknowledges that society, doctors, and psychiatrists are all complicit and even encourage this approach. My difficulties with the book lie in the narrow definition of science, t...

from homericgeek

This book reminds me of Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker. It posits that the majority of mental disorder is due to marketing, and based on the concept of making money. The author argues that many prescribers of medications do so because of kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. This ar...

from davemac

This excellent book is long overdue. The author asks, "How much of what we call mental illness is driven by social norms imposed on perfectly normal and healthy individuals?" He then proceeds to describe how a body of science - psychiatry - desiring to be accepted as genuine, a society requiring ...