Mad in America Book Reviews

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Robert Whitaker
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Mad in America by Robert Whitaker Book Summary

Robert Whitaker, noto giornalista d’inchiesta, alla fine degli anni Novanta si imbatte nella lettura di due articoli scientifici: uno mostra che le possibilità di guarigione dei pazienti schizofrenici sono simili, se non inferiori, a quelle di inizio secolo; l’altro rileva che la prognosi della schizofrenia in paesi come la Nigeria e l’India, meno all’avanguardia degli Stati Uniti nel campo della ricerca psicofarmacologica, è nettamente migliore.
Alla ricerca di una spiegazione per dati così sconcertanti, Whitaker ripercorre con uno stile sintetico e tagliente la storia della psichiatria americana dalla metà del Settecento ai giorni nostri, raccontando il netto dominio della visione organicista della malattia mentale, che spesso ha portato a ‘cure’ disumane, e denunciando il miope errore di metodo e le falsificazioni delle industrie farmaceutiche. Il risultato dell’indagine è che «il re è nudo», ovvero che la psichiatria e gli psichiatri in America hanno fallito. Note positive arrivano invece dall’Europa, dove un’esperienza psichiatrica di integrazione tra psicoterapia, riabilitazione e uso mirato di neurolettici ha prodotto risultati sorprendenti.
Finalmente tradotto per il lettore italiano, questo libro è uno strumento utilissimo per chi vuole avvicinarsi alla storia del trattamento della malattia mentale con uno sguardo critico alle false certezze del riduzionismo organicista.

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Book Name Mad in America
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The Mad in America book written by Robert Whitaker was published on 26 June 2015, Friday in the Medical category. A total of 54 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.

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