Robert Whitaker

A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. From …

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill is a 2002 nonfiction book by medical journalist Robert Whitaker. In the book, Whitaker examines and questions the efficacy, safety, and ethics of past psychiatric interventions for severe mental illnesses, particularly …