Anatomy of an Epidemic

<b>Updated with bonus material including a new foreword and afterword with new research this <i>New York Times</i> bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news.</b> <p/>In this astonishing and startling book award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States <i>tripled</i> over the past two decades? <p/>Interwoven with Whitaker's groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As <i>Anatomy of an Epidemic</i> reveals other societies have begun to alter their use of psychiatric medications and are now reporting much improved outcomes . . . so why can't such change happen here in the United States? Why have the results from these long-term studies--all of which point to the same startling conclusion--been kept from the public? <p/>Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness and yet as <i>Anatomy of an Epidemic </i>reveals the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up. <p/><b>Praise for <i>Anatomy of an Epidemic</i></b> <p/>The timing of Robert Whitaker's <i>Anatomy of an Epidemic</i> a comprehensive and highly readable history of psychiatry in the United States couldn't be better.<b>--<i>Salon</i></b> <p/><i>Anatomy of an Epidemic</i> offers some answers charting controversial ground with mystery-novel pacing.<b>--<i>TIME</i></b> <p/>Lucid pointed and important <i>Anatomy of an Epidemic</i> should be required reading for anyone considering extended use of psychiatric medicine. Whitaker is at the height of his powers. --<b>Greg Critser author of </b><i><b>Generation Rx</b></i>