User:Jaredscribe/Biology of mental illness

Anne Harrington:

The pathological basis of almost all mental disorders remains as unknown today as it was in 1886. Even as psychiatrists prescribe a widening variety of treatments, none of them can say exactly why any of these biological therapies work. Regarding the "chemical imbalance" theory of mental illness, Anne Harrington writes “Ironically, just as the public was embracing the ‘serotonin imbalance’ theory of depression, researchers were forming a new consensus” about the idea behind that theory: It was “deeply flawed and probably outright wrong.”

Propositions of the Mind Fixers Now Discredited

 * Martin Gross's scathing critique of Freudian psychoanalysis, The Psychological Society (1978), "within the next ten years .. psychiatry will come out of the dark ages, will drop all the nonsense and expertise about human behavior of which they know absolutely nothing that my grandmother didn't known, if they know that much, and will turn to medicine."
 * Jon Franklin's pulitzer prize winning series The Mind Fixers (1984)
 * Nancy Andreasen's The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry
 * Samuel Guze's lecture "Biological Psychiatry: Is There Any Other Kind?"


 * Course project I.a: Read this article, summarize and wikilink to the sources that it cites.

19th and Early 20th Century Preceptors
Theodor Meynert and Emil Kraeplin were held up as heroes by the 1980's crowd, who intended to continue their program of biological research.

The Failure and Incurable Hubris of the Mind Fixers

 * Gary Greenberg writes in review for The Atlantic: "[I]t’s a tale of promising roads that turned out to be dead ends, of treatments that seemed miraculous in their day but barbaric in retrospect, of public-health policies that were born in hope but destined for disaster."
 * Course project II.a: Read this book, summarize and wikilink its contents.
 * Course project II.b: Find the 235 citations of this book listed on google scholar, summarize and cite them here and on the relevant wikipedia articles.
 * Course project II.b: Find the 235 citations of this book listed on google scholar, summarize and cite them here and on the relevant wikipedia articles.

Influential Critiques

 * Angell, Marcia. The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About it. New York: Random House,2004.
 * Frances, Allen. Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.
 * Greenberg, Gary. The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. New York: Scribe Publications, 2013.
 * Moncrieff, Joanna. The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
 * Rose, Nikolas, and Joelle M. Abi-Rached. Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
 * Watters, Ethan. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. New York: Free Press, 2011.
 * Whitaker, Robert. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.


 * Course project III.b: Read these books and articles, summarize and wikilink their content.
 * Course project III.c: Collect information and cite on relevant wikipedia articles.