In psychiatry, the cost of erroneous scientific theories can be incalculable. Get things wrong (or even only half right) and once adopted by the profession it can take years to weed them out. The result can be millions of shattered lives.
Some of the world’s leading psychiatrists believe that this is just what has happened in their craft today. Poor diagnosis, shaky science and drugs with costly side effects all point to the same conclusion: psychiatry is badly in need of a radical overhaul.
Among the profession’s critics is Nancy Andreasen, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa and…
