The Skeptical Professional’s Guide to Psychiatry

List of Abbreviations; Permissions; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: An Overview of the Dark Ages; Chapter 2. The Biological Revolution: The Middle Years and the Rise of Psychopharmacology; Chapter 3. Has the Biological Revolution Delivered? A Focus on Antipsychotics; Chapter 4. Antipsychotics and the Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality; Chapter 5. Antipsychotics and Mortality in the Elderly with Dementia; Chapter 6. Psychotropic and Antipsychotic Polypharmacy: Common Practice, Good Medicine?; Chapter 7. The Neurologic Consequences of Antipsychotics: From Parkinsonism to Tardive Dyskinesia; Chapter 8. Antidepressants and Depression: Background and Biology; Chapter 9. Antidepressants: Do They Work? If So, When, How Often, and at What Costs?; Chapter 10. Antidepressants and Adverse Events: Falls and Fractures, Vascular Events, Risks in Pregnancy, and Abnormal Movements; Chapter 11. Treatment-Resistant Depression: Combining and Switching Antidepressants, Adding Antipsychotics, and On to Neurotherapeutics; Chapter 12. Desperately Treating Depression: On Psychotogenic and Hallucinogenic Drugs, Anti-Inflammatories, Antidiabetics, Hyperthermia, and Opioids; Chapter 13. Psychiatric Diagnoses: The DSM and the Roots of Failure; Chapter 14. Fear and Loathing at the APA: The DSM-5, The Brain Mapping Quartet, and the Future of Mental Illness; Index.