Article archive / November 1, 2014
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 15. Source pages: 15.
The Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy will host award- winning author and science writer, Robert Whitaker at its Annual Conference, February 19- 21, 2015.
Whitaker will speak on “Psychotherapeutic Alternatives to Medications,” at the event to be held in Baton Rouge at the Renaissance Hotel.
Whitaker is a journalist who has specialized in reporting on medical science. He has won the George Polk Award and a National Association of Science writers’ Award for his work reporting on psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.
He has written about abuses in psychiatric research and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. He is author of four books, including Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, and also, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill.
For more information, visit the LAMFT website.
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