EP 21: Investigating Psychiatric Suffering with Award Winning Author Robert Whitaker

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In this profoundly revealing conversation award winning author and investigative journalist Robert Whitaker shares:

• How his background as Director of Publications at Harvard Medical School and his experience starting a publishing company covering the business of clinical trials led him to begin investigating the history psychiatry,
• The questions that prompted his first book on psychiatry Mad In America,
• The questions that prompted the writing of his second book on psychiatry Anatomy of an Epidemic,
• How the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness was proved false by the 1980s but continued to be perpetuated,
• How psychiatric medications actually create chemical imbalances in the brain by perturbing normal brain function,
• His evidence-based approach to investigating the long-term impact of psychiatric medication treatment on mental illnesses,
• The attempt to discredit his work by trying to discredit him rather than finding any fault in his research,
• How the tribal nature of medical training actually prevents any progress in identifying true pathways to healing mental illness,
• Why he started his website to madinamerica.com to rethink psychiatry in ways that lead to healing and recovery,
• Why we need to replace the message that mental illness is incurable with a message of hope, because there is every reason to believe that people can heal and recover.

Website: www.madinamerica.com

Books:
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Bio:

Robert Whitaker is the author of five books, three of which tell of the history of psychiatry. In 2010, his book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness won the U.S. Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. Prior to writing books, he worked as a science reporter at the Albany Times Union newspaper in New York for a number of years. He is the founder of madinamerica.com, a website that features research news and blogs by an international group of writers interested in “rethinking psychiatry.”

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