The Myth of the Chemical Cure

1. The Disease-Centred Model of Drug Action in Psychiatry
Joanna Moncrieff

2. An Alternative Drug-Centred Model of Drug Action
Joanna Moncrieff

3. Physical Treatments and the Disease-Centred Model
Joanna Moncrieff

4. The Arrival of the New Drugs and the Influence of Interest Groups
Joanna Moncrieff

5. The Birth of the Idea of an ‘Antipsychotic’
Joanna Moncrieff

6. Are Neuroleptics Effective and Specific? A Review of the Evidence
Joanna Moncrieff

7. What Do Neuroleptics Really Do? A Drug-Centred Account
Joanna Moncrieff

8. The Construction of the ‘Antidepressant’
Joanna Moncrieff

9. Is There Such a Thing as an ‘Antidepressant’? A Review of the Evidence
Joanna Moncrieff

10. What Do Antidepressants Really Do?
Joanna Moncrieff

11. The Idea of Special Drugs for Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder)
Joanna Moncrieff

12. Evidence on the Action of Lithium and ‘Mood Stabilisers’
Joanna Moncrieff

13. Democratic Drug Treatment: Implications of the Drug-Centred Model
Joanna Moncrieff

14. The Myth of the Chemical Cure
Joanna Moncrieff

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Psychopharmacology, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Medical Sociology, Social Policy