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The Emperor's New Drugs - Exploding the Antidepressant Myth (Paperback)
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The Emperor's New Drugs - Exploding the Antidepressant Myth (Paperback)
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Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern
medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But,
as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what
everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true. How did
antidepressant drugs gain their reputation as a magic bullet for
depression? And why has it taken so long for the story to become
public? Answering these questions takes us to the point where the
lines between clinical research and marketing disappear altogether.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, Kirsch accessed clinical
trials that were withheld, by drug companies, from the public and
from the doctors who prescribe antidepressants. What he found, and
what he documents here, promises to bring revolutionary change to
the way our society perceives, and consumes, antidepressants. The
Emperor's New Drugs exposes what we have failed to see before:
depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain;
antidepressants are significantly more dangerous than other forms
of treatment and are only marginally more effective than placebos;
and, there are other ways to combat depression, treatments that
don't only include the empty promise of the antidepressant
prescription. This is not a book about alternative medicine and its
outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful
thinking in the heart of clinical medicine, about the seductions of
myth, and the final stubbornness of facts.
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