MAD SCIENCE: PSYCHIATRIC COERCION, DIAGNOSIS AND DRUGS
Book ID/图书代码： 13149013B63354
English Summary/英文概要： When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book’s detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science.
Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are not based on convincing research, but on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment in the community, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that now controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome.
This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. Mad Science is a must read for all specialists in the field as well as for the informed public.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每当谈到治疗精神病的时候，对研究成果的歪曲理解并不罕见，对资料的误读也并不是个例，而且个别研究人员甚至发表虚假的研究成果报告。这本书详细地分析了精神病强制治疗、普通治疗法，诊断和精神病药物学，这些充分表明了精神病科学研究中的特点在于局域化和制度化，而且这些特点在精神病学中一直存在。这就是精神病的科学研究。
《精神病的科学研究》一书中认为，美国现代精神病治疗法中的基本原理并不是以令人信服的研究成果为基础的，而是以没有事实根据的，错误的以及歪曲的科学为基础。作者们在分析美国人心理健康问题方面时，深入剖析了好几种悖论，包括在普通治疗法中引进了精神病科学治疗，采用了不科学的诊断系统，以及药物治疗没能彻底治疗心理疾病的原因。
这本书为读者详尽分析了当今心理健康问题的治疗手段，引起读者对心理健康问题的关注。本书的作者是精神病学方面的著名学者，研究人员以及临床医生。他们大量出版了有关普通治疗法，诊断以及治疗心理疾病的药物。《精神病的科学研究》是精神病领域里所有专家们以及对这一领域感兴趣的社会大众的必读书目。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：“An extremely important book. Psychiatry—first corrupted and now virtually annexed by Big Pharma—is comprehensively described by Mad Science, which details its scientifically invalid disorders, unreliable diagnostic methods, and ineffective and dangerous drugs. Mad Science will be the ‘go to’ book about psychiatry for critically thinking healthcare professionals, journalists, and the general public.”—Bruce E. Levine, author, Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic and Commonsense Rebellion
“Mad Science provides an incisive deconstruction of the modern mental health system and the myths and suppositions it is based on. With a clear-headed philosophical analysis and a thorough-going dissection of the empirical evidence, it exposes the muddled conceptual foundations of psychiatric science, the tautological process of diagnosis, and the inadequacies of the research base for psychiatric treatment. It challenges almost every claim that has been made for progress in society’s care of the mad and distressed over the last fifty years . . . and it describes how the unfounded but repeatedly stated notion of madness as a brain disease helps to disguise the dark heart of coercive practices that remain at the centre of psychiatric care. Mad Science reveals the vested interests that have constructed and perpetuated the modern ‘psychopharmaceutical’ complex, promulgating the mass diagnosis and drugging of the population for commercial gain, professional status, or in the interest of finding convenient and apparently unconscientious political solutions to complex social problems. This book is a must for anyone who is looking for a deeper understanding of the contradictions and failings of modern psychiatry, as well as an essential starting point for all those who imagine a different, more rational, more scientific, honest, and transparent system of care.”—Joanna Moncrieff, University College London
About the Author/作者介绍： Stuart A. Kirk是洛杉矶加州大学罗斯金公共事务学院社会福利学的退休名誉教授。
Tomi Gomory在佛罗里达州立大学担任社会福利学的副教授，他也是富布莱特奖学金的获得者。（富布莱特基金 作为促进国际间的理解项目的一部分，美国政府发放的奖学金。奖金以交换为基础发放给美国和外国的研究学者，老师，学生以及讲师。基金的目的是通过分享对教育，科学和文化方面的兴趣，增进民族和文化间的相互了解）。
David Cohen在罗伯特斯坦普尔大学公众健康与社会工作学院担任教授，他也是富布莱特奖学金的获得者。
Stuart A. Kirk is distinguished professor emeritus of social welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California-Los Angeles.
Tomi Gomory is associate professor of social work at Florida State University and a Fulbright scholar.
David Cohen is professor of social work at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work and Florida International University. He is also a Fulbright-Tocqueville scholar.
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