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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? The minute that the APA published DSM-III, they had to sell this new model of thinking to the public, and they launched a big PR effort with money from the drug companies.