Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed
- 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year
- & why without solid scientific justification has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today? The everyday sufferings & setbacks of life are now 'medicalised' into illnesses that require treatment
- usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches & medical status above patients' well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards creating more disorders & prescribing more pills; & ethical scientific & treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing. Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that in the name of helping others has actually been helping itself.