Cracked: The Unhappy Truth About Psychiatry by James Davies is highly relevant to the Center for Integrative Neuroscience, as it critiques the modern psychiatric system’s overreliance on pharmaceuticals, diagnostic inflation, and profit-driven treatment models—issues that align with our push for integrative, neuroscience-informed mental health care.
 
Why It Matters to Our Mission:
✔ Challenges Overmedication—Davies exposes how big pharma influences psychiatric diagnoses and treatments, echoing concerns about the lack of neuroscience-backed, patient-centered approaches.
✔ Critique of the DSM—The book highlights how psychiatric labels are often arbitrary, leading to overdiagnosis and unnecessary medication, reinforcing the need for holistic, root-cause-focused care.
✔ The Need for Alternative Approaches – It underscores the failures of mainstream psychiatry and the urgent need for neuroscience-driven, trauma-informed, and integrative mental health solutions—a core focus of our work.
 
By promoting ethical, evidence-based mental health care, the Center for Integrative Neuroscience aligns with the book’s call to move beyond a pharmaceutical-first model toward approaches that restore true well-being.