Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, Paperback - Robert Whitaker

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Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how the UK press report on mental he...

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People with serious mental illness get sick and die 10-20 years earlier than their same age cohort. The social determinants are many: stigma associ...

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Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionNumber of pages: 240Collection: The Clinics: Internal MedicinePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 160 x...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Douglas CenturyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a...

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How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In this book, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores...

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The Christian response to mental illness is one of the great tragedies to ravage the church today. This tragedy began with the rise of the medical ...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Andrew ScullNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, iv...

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A radical reappraisal of mental illness Madness, melancholy, insanity, lunacy, craziness, loco: a dizzying litany of words are used to describe a c...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): Robert H. WhitakerNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 217 x 275 x 21Cover type: Pape...