Grifting Depression

Whereas the diagnosis, explanation, and treatment of physical illness are scientifically sound, this is not true of psychiatric care of mental disorder. Depression, the #1 psychiatric diagnosis, illustrates this failure and it is the subject of this book.

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Allan M. Leventhal, PhD, is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. He is Professor Emeritus at American University, where he also was Director of the University Counseling Center. His forty-year career as a practitioner included being a founding member of the Washington Psychological Center, which is an outpatient treatment facility in Washington, DC. Dr. Leventhal served as President of the Maryland Psychological Association and was the Representative from Maryland to the American Psychological Association's Council of Representatives. Governor Harry Hughes of Maryland appointed him to the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, where he was elected its chairman. He is a recipient of an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Maryland Psychological Association for having led the two-year successful effort that resulted in the Maryland General Assembly passing a privileged communication law that protects the confi dentiality of patients in psychotherapy. He is Consultant Emeritus at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a recipient of Recognition for his service as a psychological consultant to the National Security Agency, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Sadness and Depression The Medicalizing of Psychiatry The DSM III Data: Truth vs. Truthiness Psychiatry's Brain Disease Theory Measuring Antidepressant Effectiveness: STAR*D Drug Effects and Placebo Effects Antidepressant Drug Safety Conflict of Interest Big Pharma and the FDA Behavioral Science Mental Disorder as Learned Behavior Behavior Therapy for Depression Notes Index.