Mad Science

*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book AwardMad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science

Stuart A. Kirk

Preface 1. Illusions of Psychiatric Progress 2. The History and Historians of Madness 3. The "Therapeutic" Coercion of the Mad in the Community 4. And DSM Said: Let There Be Disorder 5. The Failure of Descriptive Diagnosis 6. Dancing with Drugs 7. From Drugs to Medications-and Back 8. The Structure of Mad Science Index