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In 1967, one in three American adults filled a prescription for a psychoactive medication, with total sales of such drugs reaching $692 million.

Robert Whitaker

In 1967, one in three American adults filled a prescription for a psychoactive medication, with total sales of such drugs reaching $692 million.

The GAO, in its June 2008 report, concluded that one in every sixteen young adults in the United States is now seriously mentally ill.

Robert Whitaker

The GAO, in its June 2008 report, concluded that one in every sixteen young adults in the United States is now seriously mentally ill.

About Author
Robert Whitaker or Whittaker may refer to:

Robert Whittaker (fighter) (born 1990), Australian mixed martial artist
Robert Whitaker (equestrian) (born 1983), British showjumper
Robert Whitaker (author) (active since 1989), American author
Robert Whitaker (surgeon) (active since 1973), British author, surgeon and anatomist
Robert Whitaker (photographer) (1939–2011), British photographer
Robert Whittaker (cricketer) (1908–1990), English cricketer
Robert Whittaker (American football) (1904–1990), American football player and coach
Robert Whittaker (ecologist) (1920–1980), American vegetation ecologist
Robert Whittaker (British Army officer) (1894–1967), British Army major
Robert Whitaker (minister) (1863–1944), Baptist minister and political activist
Robert H. Whittaker (politician), American member of the Virginia House of Delegates

That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adu...

Robert Whitaker

That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adu...

The cocktail she took usually included a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine for anxiety, although the exact combination was always changing. One drug would make her sleepy, anoth...

Robert Whitaker

The cocktail she took usually included a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine for anxiety, although the exact combination was always changing. One drug would make her sleepy, anoth...

Today, according to the NIMH, bipolar illness affects one in every forty adults in the United States, and so, before we review the outcomes literature for this disorder, we need to try to understand t...

Robert Whitaker

Today, according to the NIMH, bipolar illness affects one in every forty adults in the United States, and so, before we review the outcomes literature for this disorder, we need to try to understand t...

The three books were The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch; Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness i...

Robert Whitaker

The three books were The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch; Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness i...

Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people, Salo explained. It is in the relationship, and the one who is psychotic makes the ba...

Robert Whitaker

Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people, Salo explained. It is in the relationship, and the one who is psychotic makes the ba...

When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in the placebo groups. This is quite different from what happens in...

Robert Whitaker

When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in the placebo groups. This is quite different from what happens in...

The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show that this treatment helps children grow up and thrive. In a 2012...

Robert Whitaker

The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show that this treatment helps children grow up and thrive. In a 2012...

In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)

Robert Whitaker

In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)

In studies of first-episode bipolar patients, investigators at McLean Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Cincinnati Hospital found that at least one-third had used marijuana...

Robert Whitaker

In studies of first-episode bipolar patients, investigators at McLean Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Cincinnati Hospital found that at least one-third had used marijuana...

Wallace Laboratories hired Salvador Dalí to help stoke Miltown fever, paying the great artist $35,000 to create an exhibit at an AMA convention that was meant to capture the magic of this new drug.

Robert Whitaker

Wallace Laboratories hired Salvador Dalí to help stoke Miltown fever, paying the great artist $35,000 to create an exhibit at an AMA convention that was meant to capture the magic of this new drug.

If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications...

Robert Whitaker

If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications...

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The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it gratifying and informative to have...

Robert Whitaker

The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it gratifying and informative to have...

We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear. First, by greatly expanding diagnostic boundaries, psychiatry is...

Robert Whitaker

We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear. First, by greatly expanding diagnostic boundaries, psychiatry is...

I do wonder what might have happened if [at age sixteen] I could have just talked to someone, and they could have helped me learn about what I could do on my own to be a healthy person. I never had a...

Robert Whitaker

I do wonder what might have happened if [at age sixteen] I could have just talked to someone, and they could have helped me learn about what I could do on my own to be a healthy person. I never had a...

The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it, as I did in an earlier book, Mad in America, people regularly ask about...

Robert Whitaker

The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it, as I did in an earlier book, Mad in America, people regularly ask about...

But none of these drugs had been developed after scientists had identified any disease process or brain abnormality that might have been causing these symptoms.

Robert Whitaker

But none of these drugs had been developed after scientists had identified any disease process or brain abnormality that might have been causing these symptoms.

But here is the conundrum. Given this great advance in care, we should expect that the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States, on a per-capita basis, would have declined over the past fi...

Robert Whitaker

But here is the conundrum. Given this great advance in care, we should expect that the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States, on a per-capita basis, would have declined over the past fi...

With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness...

Robert Whitaker

With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness...