Day: June 22, 2011

• June 22, 2011

  On the illusions of psychiatry

  In this 2nd piece of a 2-part series on the history and practice of psychiatry, Marcia Angell critically examines the players and forces behind psychiatry’s cozy relationship with big pharma. She argues: After 1950 and especially during the 1980s, psychiatrists made a conscious effort to adopt a biological model. In so doing, psychiatry was able…