I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success?
The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline
Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era
Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry
II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful
The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases
Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases
III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials
Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics
The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?
What kind of psychiatry do you want?
