Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news.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?Interwoven with Whit...

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely com...

The Roman army, well-known for its discipline, organization, and invention in both weapons and tactics, allowed Rome to build and defend a vast empire which for centuries would dominate the Mediterranean world and beyond.Go on a journey throughout history and discover the ancient weapons, strategies, and military hierarchy that helped lead Rome in battle. This incredible historical piece covers it all from A-Z.

Cuando el galardonado periodista científico Robert Whitaker se percató de que entre 1987 y 2007 el número de pacientes con discapacidad por enfermedad mental se había casi triplicado, en paralelo a un espectacular aumento en la producción de droga psicotrópica, comenzó a reflexionar. Parece como si estos psicofármacos fueran "balas mágicas" que dejan fuera de juego a la enfermedad mental, reinsertando a los pacientes a las filas de la ciudadanía productiva. Pero numerosos estudios clínicos...

Robert Whitaker, noto giornalista d’inchiesta, alla fine degli anni Novanta si imbatte nella lettura di due articoli scientifici: uno mostra che le possibilità di guarigione dei pazienti schizofrenici sono simili, se non inferiori, a quelle di inizio secolo; l’altro rileva che la prognosi della schizofrenia in paesi come la Nigeria e l’India, meno all’avanguardia degli Stati Uniti nel campo della ricerca psicofarmacologica, è nettamente migliore.Alla ricerca di una spiegazione per d...

They shot them down like rabbits . . .September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church, forming a union and making plans to sue their white landowners, who for years had cheated them out of their fair share of the cotton crop. A car pulled up outside the church . . .Wha...

Sur fond d'exploration scientifique au XVIIIe siècle en Amérique latine (la première réalisée par des Français), l'incroyable histoire d'amour d'un couple séparé depuis 20 ans qui se retrouve dans des conditions extrêmes et l'histoire vraie d'Isabelle Godin des Odonais qui accomplit un périple de 4 800 km d'un bout à l'autre du continent à travers la Cordillère des Andes et la jungle amazonienne pour rejoindre son mari. Un récit palpitant que Dennis Lehane décrivit comme "aussi captivant q...

An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recoverySchizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in n...

An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recoverySchizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in n...

In the early years of the eighteenth century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists bar...

**La Psiquiatría bajo Sospechas** Investiga cómo la influencia del dinero farmacéutico y los intereses gremiales han corrompido el comportamiento de la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatría y la psiquiatría académica durante los últimos treinta y cinco años. Este libro documenta cómo la institución psiquiátrica engañó regularmente al público estadounidense sobre lo que se sabía acerca de la biología de los trastornos mentales, la validez de los diagnósticos psiquiátricos y la seguridad y efi...

25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movementOvermedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric mi...