Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Whitaker's meticulously sourced argument is that the drugs prescribed to treat mental illness have, in many cases, made the conditions worse over the long term — and that the pharmaceutical industry's control of the research literature has prevented this from being recognised. The book is controversial precisely because the evidence is hard to dismiss. If even partially correct, it implicates an entire system of care in systemic harm.