Remove Aging and mental health Remove Books Remove Community support
article thumbnail

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.