Unhinged, The Trouble with Psychiatry--A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis. By Daniel Carlat. Free Press, 256 pp., $25
At a press briefing at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in May in which new research about olfactory reference syndrome (people who think they smell) and links between depression and allergens was presented, a reporter's pointed question took many aback:
"How do we know your work won't be used to make bad breath or hay fever mental disorders?" the reporter asked the researchers, whose smiles faded.
The reporter was Daniel Carlat, MD and his new book, Unhinged, The Trouble with Psychiatry -- A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis, continues the shots-across-the-bow to the psychiatric establishment.
Doctors who join pharma speaker bureaus? "Hired guns."
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