Robert Whitaker is a medical journalist who used to write articles about the brain chemical imbalance theory, believing it to be true. When the World Health Organisation claimed that living in a developed country was a strong predictor of a poor outcome for those diagnosed with schizophrenia he wanted to know why. Why, if you’re diagnosed with schizophrenia, are you better off coming from Nigeria or India? Perhaps it is because people are more compliant in developing countries and take their medication…
Robert Whitaker also noticed a run away increase in people with mental health problems living on disability. With a similarly massive increase in people prescribed antipsychotics and antidepressants, shouldn’t the disability figures be falling accordingly, to reflect these new ‘magic bullet’ drugs that were now on the market?
Click on the image below for to a list of links to Robert Whitaker’s talks:
Or start here with Part One: The Roots of the Epidemic:
