The Bitterest Pills

1. Cure or Curse: What Are Antipsychotics?
Joanna Moncrieff

2. Chlorpromazine: The First Wonder Drug
Joanna Moncrieff

3. Magic Bullets: The Development of Ideas on Drug Action
Joanna Moncrieff

4. Building a House of Cards: The Dopamine Theory of Schizophrenia and Drug Action
Joanna Moncrieff

5. The Phoenix Rises: From Tardive Dyskinesia to the Introduction of the ‘Atypicals’
Joanna Moncrieff

6. Looking Where the Light is: Randomised Controlled Trials of Antipsychotics
Joanna Moncrieff

7. The Patient’s Dilemma: Other Evidence on the Effects of Antipsychotics
Joanna Moncrieff

8. Chemical Cosh: Antipsychotics and Chemical Restraint
Joanna Moncrieff

9. Old and New Drug-Induced Problems
Joanna Moncrieff

10. The First Tentacles: The ‘Early Intervention in Psychosis’ Movement
Joanna Moncrieff

11. The Antipsychotic Epidemic: Prescribing in the Twenty-First Century
Joanna Moncrieff

12. All is not as it Seems
Joanna Moncrieff

Keywords: Psychology, Critical Psychology, Psychopharmacology, Clinical Psychology, Psychology Research, Psychopathology