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Prescriptions for Reform

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Psychiatry Under the Influence

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As we noted in the introduction, this book grew out of a year we spent as fellows in a lab on institutional corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. The focus there was always solution oriented, as opposed to blame oriented. Any investigation of institutional corruption should illuminate the systemic influences that have led the institution astray, and set forth prescriptions for reform. We have now arrived at this ultimate step: How can psychiatry be reformed? Or—and this is a more provocative question—can it be reformed? Perhaps psychiatry’s place in our society, as the ultimate authority in this domain of mental health, needs to be rethought.

Those of us who indict past failures have a duty to develop new solutions.

—Devra Davis, 20091

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Whitaker, R., Cosgrove, L. (2015). Prescriptions for Reform. In: Psychiatry Under the Influence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516022_11

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