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Schizophrenics in the United States presently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the significantly mentally sick are just old medication in new containers, and that people as a world are deeply deluded about their efficiency. The popular use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what's perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how medication companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to confirm that new antipsychotic drugs were far better than the old, while keeping patients at night about dangerous aspect results. A haunting, deeply compassionate audiobook now revised with a new introduction. Mad in America boosts important questions about our responsibilities to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and everything we value most about the individual mind.
