| Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth Contributor(s): Kirsch, Irving (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465022006 ISBN-13: 9780465022007 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology - Medical | Pharmacology |
| Dewey: 615 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.48 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Do antidepressants work? Of course -- everyone 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, Kirsch's research -- a thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration data -- has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion. The Emperor's 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. |