The Sedated Society

1. Introduction
James Davies

2. Psychopharmacology Is Not Evidence-Based Medicine
Peter C. Gøtzsche

3. Starting Young: Children Cultured into Becoming Psycho-Pharmaceutical Consumers—The Example of Childhood Depression
Sami Timimi

4. Opium and the People: The Prescription Psychopharmaceutical Epidemic in Historical Context
Joanna Moncrieff

5. Desperate for a Fix: My Story of Pharmaceutical Misadventure
Luke Montagu

6. Neuroleptic (Antipsychotic) Drugs: An Epidemic of Tardive Dyskinesia and Related Brain Injuries Afflicting Tens of Millions
Peter R. Breggin

7. Psychiatry Under the Influence
Robert Whitaker

8. Political Pills: Psychopharmaceuticals and Neoliberalism as Mutually Supporting
James Davies

9. Psychopharmaceuticals as ‘Essential Medicines’: Local Negotiations of Global Access to Psychotherapeutic Medicines in India
China Mills

10. The Public and Private Lives of Psychopharmaceuticals in the Global South
Stefan Ecks

11. A Manifesto for Psychological Health and Wellbeing
Peter Kinderman

Nyckelord: Psychology, Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Personality and Social Psychology, Bioethics