Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

by Stuart A. Kirk

Book Overview

*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book Award

Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412849764
• ISBN13: 9781412849760
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"