Author

Books by Robert Whitaker

Robert Whitaker is an American medical journalist and author who has written extensively on psychiatry and the history of mental health treatment. He spent years at the Boston Globe covering medicine and science before writing Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic. His reporting has won multiple awards, and he founded the website Mad in America, which publishes critical perspectives on psychiatric practice. Whitaker's work has been praised by some clinicians and researchers and strongly criticized by others in the psychiatric establishment. He is based in the United States.