Anatomy of an Epidemic - Robert Whitaker
Language: EnglishKeywords:
antidepressants
antipsychotics
Psychiatry
psychopharmaceutics
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Written by Robert Whitaker
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Unabridged
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nation’s children. What is going on?
Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix “chemical imbalances” in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startled—and dismayed—to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.
Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: During the past fifty years, when investigators looked at how psychiatric drugs affected long-term outcomes, what did they find? Did they discover that the drugs help people stay well? Function better? Enjoy good physical health? Or did they find that these medications, for some paradoxical reason, increase the likelihood that people will become chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone to physical illness?
This is the first book to look at the merits of psychiatric medications through the prism of long-term results. Are long-term recovery rates higher for medicated or unmedicated schizophrenia patients? Does taking an antidepressant decrease or increase the risk that a depressed person will become disabled by the disorder? Do bipolar patients fare better today than they did forty years ago, or much worse? When the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studied the long-term outcomes of children with ADHD, did they determine that stimulants provide any benefit?
By the end of this review of the outcomes literature, readers are certain to have a haunting question of their own: Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public?
In this compelling history, Whitaker also tells the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. Finally, he reports on innovative programs of psychiatric care in Europe and the United States that are producing good long-term outcomes. Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up.
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| Creation Date: | Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:21:17 -0500 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| 01. Part I - The Epidemic - Chapter 1 - A Modern Plague.mp3 14.22 MBs | |
| 02. Chapter 2 - Anecdotal Thoughts.mp3 41.41 MBs | |
| 03. Part II - The Science of Psychiatric Drugs - Chapter 3 - The Roots of an Epidemic.mp3 12.91 MBs | |
| 04. Chapter 4 - Psychiatry’s Magic Bullets.mp3 32.32 MBs | |
| 05. Chapter 5 - The Hunt for Chemical Imbalances.mp3 30.98 MBs | |
| 06. Part III - Outcomes - Chapter 6 - A Paradox Revealed.mp3 61.99 MBs | |
| 07. Chapter 7 - The Benzo Trap.mp3 37.39 MBs | |
| 08. Chapter 8 - An Episodic Illness Turns Chronic.mp3 39.39 MBs | |
| 09. Chapter 9 - The Bipolar Boom.mp3 55.99 MBs | |
| 10. Chapter 10 - An Epidemic Explained.mp3 16.85 MBs | |
| 11. Chapter 11 - The Epidemic Spreads to Children.mp3 52.23 MBs | |
| 12. Chapter 12 - Suffer The Children.mp3 21.14 MBs | |
| 13. Part IV - Explication of a Delusion - Chapter 13 - The Rise of an Ideology.mp3 33.47 MBs | |
| 14. Chapter 14 - The Story That Was & Wasn’t Told.mp3 50.71 MBs | |
| 15. Chapter 15 - Tallying Up The Profits.mp3 27.24 MBs | |
| 16. Part V - Solutions - Chapter 16 - Blueprints for Reform.mp3 46.68 MBs | |
| 17. Epologue - Few Dare To Announce Unwelcome Truth.mp3 2.32 MBs | |
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This post has 3 comments
March 21st, 2013
This seems very interesting, but i’m stuck with 88 mb left. Could someone please seed ..?
Thanks in advance!
December 8th, 2014
I wouldn’t take much stake in this. I live in a black part of LA and many of the single mothers here put all their kids on disability, (mental disability) since they can get $900 per child per month from the tax payers. That’s how a lot of them drive cars like big SUVs that take so much gas.
September 12th, 2022
Could someone please be kind and seed _/\_
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