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Marcia Angell on Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Industry

In this two-part series published in The New York Review of Books under the titles “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” and “The Illusions of Psychiatry,” Marcia Angell summarizes three books that strongly criticize the pharmaceutical treatment of psychiatric disorders, and particularly the role the pharmaceutical industry has played in shaping public and medical perception of them.

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