Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues to soar. Every day, 850 adults and 250 children with a mental illness are added to the government disability rolls. What is going on?
Chapter 3. The Roots of an Epidemic
Chapter 4. Psychiatry’s Magic Bullets
Chapter 5. The Hunt for Chemical Imbalances
Chapter 8. An Episodic Illness Turns Chronic
Chapter 10. An Epidemic Explained
Chapter 11. The Epidemic Spreads to Children
Chapter 12. Suffer the Children
Chapter 13. The Rise of an Ideology
Chapter 14. The Story That Was … and Wasn’t Told
Chapter 15. Tallying Up the Profits
Chapter 16. Blueprints for Reform