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Blaming the brain :

[Book]

the truth about drugs and mental health /

Elliot S. Valenstein

New York :

Free Press,

c1998

xi, 292 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-284) and index

Discoveries of Psychotherapeutic Drugs -- Theories of Drug Action and Biochemical Causes of Mental Disorder -- A Closer Look at the Evidence -- The interpretation of the Evidence -- How the Pharmaceutical Industry Promotes Drugs and Chemical theories of Mental Illness -- Other Special Interest Groups

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In Blaming the Brain Elliot Valenstein exposes the many weaknesses inherent in the scientific arguments supporting the widely accepted theory that biochemical imbalances are the main cause of mental illness. Valenstein reveals how, beginning in the 1950s, the accidental discovery of a few mood-altering drugs stimulated an enormous interest in psychopharmacology, resulting in staggering growth and profits for the pharmaceutical industry. He lays bare the commercial motives of drug companies and their huge stake in expanding their markets. Prozac, Thorazine, and Zoloft are just a few of the psychoactive drugs that have dramatically changed practice in the mental health profession. Physicians today prescribe them in huge numbers even though, as several major studies reveal, their effectiveness and safety have been greatly exaggerated. Part history, part science, part expose, and part solution, Blaming the Brain sounds a clarion call throughout our culture of quick-fix pharmacology and our increasing reliance on drugs as a cure-all for mental illness. This provocative book will force patients, practitioners, and prescribers alike to rethink the causes of mental illness and the methods by which we treat it

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