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Robert Whitaker ’s articles on the men-

tally ill and the drug industry have won

several awards, including the George

Polk award for medical writing, and

the National Association of Science

Writers award for best magazine arti-

cle. A series he co-wrote for The Boston

Globe was named a ﬁnalist for the

Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Whitaker lives in

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Photgraph by B. D. Cohen/ADIOL

Praise for Mad in America

“An articulate dissection of ‘mad medicine.’ . . . A horrifying

history.”

— Booklist (starred review)

“This book’s lessons about the medical dangers of greed, ego

and sham are universal and couldn’t be more timely. . . .

People should read this excellent book.”

— Baltimore Sun

“An insightful and haunting tale.”

— National Journal

“A powerfully disturbing reading experience.... Whitaker’s

book does a singular service in reminding us that authority of

all sorts—medical, state, or the unholy combination of both

that has frequently deﬁned psychiatry—is always in danger of

shifting into tyranny.”

—Reason

“A disturbing book; it should be carefully studied by those

who care for, or about, the mentally ill.”

— Psychology Today

“The most important bit of mental health muckraking since

Deutsch’s The Shame of the States was published in 1948.”

—In These Times

“Robert Whitaker has written a fascinating and provocative

book—a history of the way Americans understand schizophre-

nia and attempt to treat it, each twist and turn of which is

marked by the hubris that at last we have the answer. And as

he makes clear, we still do not, nor are we anywhere near as

humane in caring for the schizophrenics in our midst as we

think we are.”

—Marcia Angell, M.D., Harvard Medical School, former

Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine

“Serious and well documented.”

— American Scientist

“ Mad in America is a dose of truth therapy for a seriously dis-

turbed mental health system.... This courageous book made

me want to stand up and cheer.”

—David Oaks, Director, Support Coalition International

“Controversial . . . [Whitaker] marshals a surprising amount

of evidence.”

— Chicago Tribune

“[ Mad in America ] is mandatory reading.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

“Investigative journalism at its scholarly, perceptive, and ex-

planatory best. Mad in America presents an insightful, coura-

geous exposé of how madness went from ‘out of mind, out of

sight’ to a source of massive corporate proﬁts.”

—Loren R. Mosher, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,

University of California at San Diego, and

former Chief, Center for Studies of Schizophrenia,

National Institute of Mental Health

“An extraordinarily well-researched work on a part of our his-

tory that most Americans don’t know the ﬁrst thing about. A

simply fascinating read, whether you are involved in the

American mental health system or not.”

—Margot Kidder

“ Mad in America is a bleak look at the history of mental health

treatment. It calls for answers and accountability for practices

that can no longer be ignored.”

— The Common Review

“This is such an important book that every psychiatrist should

be compelled to read at least the preface, every year. And

everyone else should then insist on them describing in writ-

ing, every year, what they’re doing about it.”

— New Scientist

“This courageous and compelling book succeeds as both a

history of our attitudes toward mental illness and a manifesto

for changing them.”

—Amazon.com

MAD

AMERICA

BAD SCIENCE , BAD MEDICINE ,

AND THE ENDURING MISTREATMENT

OF THE MENTALLY ILL

Robert Whitaker

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