ABSTRACT

Broadly scanning the biologically oriented treatments for psychological disorders in 20th century psychiatry, the authors raise serious questions about the efficacy of the somatic treatments for psychological distress and challenge the widespread preference for biologically based treatments as the treatments of choice. For graduate and undergraduate courses in clinical, social, and health psychology, behavioral medicine, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. psychopharmacology, psychiatry, and clinical social work.

chapter |37 pages

Examining Antidepressant Effectiveness

Findings, Ambiguities, and Some Vexing Puzzles

chapter |37 pages

Attention Deficit Disorder

The Emperor's Clothes, Animal “Pharm,” and Other Fiction

chapter |28 pages

A Second Opinion

Rethinking the Claims of Biological Psychiatry