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Mad in America

Robert Whitaker

"Medical journalist Robert Whitaker ... traces the treatment of mental illness through the use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s, to the electroshock therapy of the 1950s, to what is perhaps his most damning revelation: drug companies in ...

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