The Emperor's New Drugs
Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Irving Kirsch(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 26. January 2010
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-465-02016-4 (ISBN)
Description
Do antidepressants work? Of courseeveryone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirschs researcha thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration datahas demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, weve been treating it with suggestion. The Emperors New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what had seemed a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus. But Kirsch does more than just criticize: he offers a path society can follow so that we stop popping pills and start proper treatment for depression.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-465-02016-4 (9780465020164)
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