The Myth of the Chemical Cure

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 The Disease-Centred Model of Drug Action in Psychiatry
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   Chapter 2 An Alternative Drug-Centred Model of Drug Action
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   Chapter 3 Physical Treatments and the Disease-Centred Model
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   Chapter 4 The Arrival of the New Drugs and the Influence of Interest Groups
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   Chapter 5 The Birth of the Idea of an ‘Antipsychotic’
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   Chapter 6 Are Neuroleptics Effective and Specific? A Review of the Evidence
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   Chapter 7 What Do Neuroleptics Really Do? A Drug-Centred Account
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   Chapter 8 The Construction of the ‘Antidepressant’
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    Chapter 9 Is There Such a Thing as an ‘Antidepressant’? A Review of the Evidence
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    Chapter 10 What Do Antidepressants Really Do?
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    Chapter 11 The Idea of Special Drugs for Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder)
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    Chapter 12 Evidence on the Action of Lithium and ‘Mood Stabilisers’
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    Chapter 13 Democratic Drug Treatment: Implications of the Drug-Centred Model
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    Chapter 14 The Myth of the Chemical Cure