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The myth of the chemical cure : a critique of psychiatric drug treatment / Joanna Moncrieff.
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Title:The myth of the chemical cure : a critique of psychiatric drug treatment / Joanna Moncrieff.
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Author/Creator:Moncrieff, Joanna, 1966-
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Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QV77.2 .M66 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QV77.2 .M66 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Psychopharmacology--Evaluation.
Mental illness--Chemotherapy--Evaluation.
Psychotropic drugs--Evaluation.
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Medical Subjects: Psychotropic Drugs--adverse effects.
Psychotropic Drugs--therapeutic use.
Mental Disorders--drug therapy.
Psychopharmacology.
Treatment Failure.
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Description:xi, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-271) and index.
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ISBN:9780230574311
0230574319
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Contents:1. Disease-Centred Model of Drug Action in Psychiatry
2. Alternative Drug-Centred Model of Drug Action
3. Physical Treatments and the Disease-Centred Model
4. Arrival of the New Drugs and the Influence of Interest Groups
5. Birth of the Idea of an 'Antipsychotic'
6. Are Neuroleptics Effective and Specific? A Review of the Evidence
7. What Do Neuroleptics Really Do? A Drug-Centred Account
8. Construction of the 'Antidepressant'
9. Is There Such a Thing as an 'Antidepressant'? A Review of the Evidence
10. What Do Antidepressants Really Do?
11. Idea of Special Drugs for Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder)
12. Evidence on the Action of Lithium and 'Mood Stabilisers'
13. Democratic Drug Treatment: Implications of the Drug-Centred Model
14. Myth of the Chemical Cure.