Overprescribing Madness

What'S Driving Australia's Mental Health Epidemic

Martin Whitely

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English

Woodslane
10 February 2021

Medicine; Medicine: general issues; Health systems & services

With 1 in 6 Australians now taking a mental health drug, Dr Martin Whitely’s Overprescribing Madness asks: What’s gone wrong in the lucky country? He expertly investigates the drivers of Australia’s rapidly increasing rates of the diagnosis and treatment of depression, anxiety, psychosis and ADHD, and offers a series of thoughtful reforms needed to ensure psychiatric practice is based on rigorous, independent, bias-minimised evidence that reflects the Hippocratic obligation of medical practitioners to ‘first do no harm’. Read Overprescribing Madness and understand the social, economic, political, and ideological, factors driving Australia’s ‘pill for every ill’ approach to mental health.

By: Martin Whitely
Imprint: Woodslane
Country of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 9781925927535
ISBN 10: 1925927539
Publication Date: 10 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: Madness in the Age of COVID-19; Introduction: Sicker, Sadder, Madder; All the way with the APA (American Psychiatric Association); From Bad to Worse, DSM-5 replaces DSM-IV; Antidepressants, Youth Suicide and Self-Harm, the depressing truth; Patrick McGorrys Ultra High Risk Crusade; ADHD: So Big It Must Be Real?; Ian Hickie, Australias Depression Scientist-Salesman; Australias Bio-Psychiatry Channel (The ABC); The TGA: Australias Claytons Regulator; Where to from Here?

Reviews for Overprescribing Madness: What'S Driving Australia's Mental Health Epidemic

""This is a must read book for anyone, lay or professional, who is interested in understanding the impact of mental health services on patients and society more broadly. Dr Martin Whitely does a masterful job of documenting how vested interests and a few high profile psychiatrists have colluded to deceive the media and politicians into implementing policies that have made things worse not better. Dr Whitely combines his academic skills with his background in politics to narrate a sorry tail of how Australia were sold a dangerous medical model psychiatry that expanded the pool of people thought to have a mental disorder/illness along with drug prescribing that has undoubtedly exposed more people to harm than helped them. Every politician should read Dr Whitely's prescription for the minimum recommended political actions needed to remedy this sorry state of affairs."" -- Dr Sami Timimi a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist from the UK