EIBF 2013: is psychiatry doing more harm than good? (More brainy stuff.)

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James Davies is the author of Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good. The main points of his argument, in the talk he gave at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013, were:

Psychiatric drugs often do not do what they say they do, they are more ineffectual than the drug companies would have you believe
The link between psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies has become too close, too comfortable
Psychiatry is wrongly...