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Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Language
English
Description
"This thirteenth edition of The Complete Mental Health Resource Guide provides comprehensive coverage of 22 mental health disorder categories, from ADHD to Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders, with over 100 subcategories and specific disorders"--Introduction
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Medical journalist Robert Whitaker... traces the treatment of mental illness through the use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s, to the electroshock therapy of the 1950s, to what is perhaps his most damning revelation: drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed research to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were moore effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book...