Robert Whitaker (author)

[8] In 2004, Whitaker published a paper in the non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses entitled "The case against antipsychotic drugs: a 50-year record of doing more harm than good".

[9][10] In 2005, he published a paper entitledAnatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America in the peer-reviewed journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry.

[12][13][14] He has written on and off for the Boston Globe and in 2001, he wrote his first book Mad in America about psychiatric research and medications, the domains of some of his earlier journalism.

Many leading academic psychiatrists[example needed] served as influential advocates for these pharmaceutical companies and received millions of dollars in compensation.

[21] A 1998 Boston Globe article series he co-wrote on psychiatric research was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.