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This is Your Brain on Trial

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Psychiatry and the Presumption of Experts

In the 19 seventies, psychiatry was in crisis. There were a few studies that came out which suggested diagnoses were pretty much just based on vibes. In 20 19 investigative journalist susan callahan published a book showing the whole thing to be fraudulent. So that's clinical psychiatry and forensic psychiatry both being shown to be untrustworthy.

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