The Antidepressant Era
Author: David Healy
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ISBN: 0674039580
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr (November, 1999)
Sales Rank: 98,681
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Packed with information, but difficult to read
David Healy obviously knows a lot about antidepressants (and about psychopharmacology in general). However, he apparently doesn't know a lot about using clear, straightforward, unpretentious language.This book badly needs an editor. Healy's writing is far more difficult and opaque than it needs to be.
Nevertheless, I'm giving the book four stars because of the excellent content.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Should be required reading for all psychiatrists
A fascinating historical account of the development of antidepressants. By telling us the facts, it illuminates the degree to which the field of psychiatry has been overrun by pharmaceutical corporate brainwashing. This book could serve as an anti - indoctrination of sorts, to combat the world of neurobabble. It would be an especially important read for psychiatrists, psychologists and all others who are actually involved in treating people with mental health problems. If your intellectual curiosity has not yet dissipated in these biological times, this book is for you.
Rating: 4 out of 5
ignorance may be bliss but it does not solve the problem
Being a researcher of SSRIs and depression from a psychologiacl standpoint I was impressed by the line took by Healy- my own research is begining to show that even when people take SSRIs their self-esteem (which is formed by childhood and environment) is not affected or changed. I agree with Healy that we should take far more account of the fundamnetal social implications of depression within society and treat this as well as the individual- doing this is a far more efective way of tackling depression. However this may not be the case for the drug companies. Similar Products
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