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The Top 4 Books That Criticize Psychiatry
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis – Daniel J Carlat [Madness and Civilization](https://www.amazon.
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis – Daniel J Carlat
Madness and Civilization – Michel Foucault
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct – Thomas Szasz
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill – Robert Whitaker
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