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- The Creation of Psychopharmacology
- David Healy
- English
- 14 February 2020
- 9780674015999
David Healy ☆ 8 READ & DOWNLOAD
READ & DOWNLOAD ✓ The Creation of Psychopharmacology Nonetheless such discoveries made and unmade academic reputations and inspired intense politicking for the Nobel PrizeOnce pharmaceutical companies recognized the commercial potential of antipsychotic medications financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever aggressively marketed medications With verve and immense learning Healy tells a story with surprising implications in a book that will become the leading scholarly work on its compelling subjec. Healy s prose is extraordinarily dull to read and although he gets his facts straight in the first half of the book in the second half he gets some facts wrong and displays a clear anti psychiatry bias He presents such harmful ideas as suggesting antidepressants shouldn t be taken because without depressed people there wouldn t be art or spirituality Do not trust the facts in this book and do not listen to his bias It is harmful and offensive both to people with mental health issues and to those who work to help themCheck out my full review
REVIEW º eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF ☆ David Healy
READ & DOWNLOAD ✓ The Creation of Psychopharmacology Ccidents of technological discovery leading neuroscientific research of fierce professional competition and the backlash of the antipsychiatry movement of the 1960s A chemical treatment was developed for one purpose and as long as some theoretical rationale could be found doctors administered it to the insane patients in their care to see if it would help Sometimes it did dramatically Why these treatments worked Healy argues provocatively was and often still is a mystery. This is a massive book which straddles an uneasy line between scholarly and popular Deeply researched Heely draws from some high level theory to try and explain the transformation in psychiatric care in the 20th century However the scope of the book leads to some organizational difficulties and Heely s own speculations on what happens next don t uite match up to his researchDavid Heely attempts to offer a wide ranging description of the characteristics of modern psychiatric care both positive and negative He engages in a historical development of psychiatry through the 20th century from asylums engaged in confinement psychodynamic and analytic theories and finally modern drug based psychiatry as exemplified by the use of chlorpromazine Thorazine Heely s work is theoretically grounded in Foucault s idea of biopower the responsibility of states and individuals to engage in the management of health and Thomas Kuhn s ideas about paradigmatic science Psychopharm
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READ & DOWNLOAD ✓ The Creation of Psychopharmacology David Healy follows his widely praised study The Antidepressant Era with an even ambitious and dramatic story the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication Healy argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine generally known as Thorazine is as significant in the history of medicine as the discovery of penicillin reminding readers of the worldwide prevalence of insanity within living memoryBut Healy tells not of the triumph of science but of a stream of fruitful a. All of David Healy s books are with reading They are very well researched incredibly informative This book is slow thick in parts so I would recommend jumping into this one first but it does supply the science research supporting what he s written elsewhere