An edition of The emperor's new drugs (2010)

The emperor's new drugs

exploding the antidepressant myth

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An edition of The emperor's new drugs (2010)

The emperor's new drugs

exploding the antidepressant myth

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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. His research has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
226

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Table of Contents

Listening to Prozac, but hearing placebo
The "dirty little secret"
Countering the critics
The myth of the chemical imbalance
The placebo effect and the power of belief
How placebos work
Beyond antidepressants.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-218) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
615/.78
Library of Congress
RM332 .K57 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 226 p.
Number of pages
226

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27117958M
Internet Archive
emperorsnewdrugs0000kirs
ISBN 10
046502016X
ISBN 13
9780465020164
LCCN
2009937860
OCLC/WorldCat
502135256

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