In "Is Psychiatry for Sale," a discussion paper for the Institute of
psychiatry in London, researcher Joanna Moncrieff makes several
conclusions (
http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/pharmaceuticalindustry.htm 2003).
"Western society is consuming ever larger quantities of prescription
drugs and many of these are for psychiatric complaints," Moncrieff
said. "The pharmaceutical industry is now heavily involved in the
organization of research into psychiatric drugs and the dissemination
of research findings. Psychiatry provides fertile ground for
pharmaceutical industry profits because it provides opportunities for
expanding definitions of sickness to include more and more areas of
social and personal difficulty."
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