<p>Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed ? 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year ? and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?<br><br>The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now 'medicalised' into illnesses that require treatment ? usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapis...