Emperor's New Drugs : Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

Emperor's New Drugs : Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

PAPERBACK

08 Mar, 2011

By Irving Kirsch (author)

Do antidepressants work? Of course -- everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred pat...

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ISBN-10:

0465022006

ISBN-13:

9780465022007

Publisher

Basic Books

Dimensions

7.90 X 5.10 X 0.70 inches

Language

English

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.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0465022006

ISBN-13

:9780465022007

Publisher

:Basic Books

Publication date

: 08 Mar, 2011

Category

: Medical

Format

:PAPERBACK

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

Dimension

: 7.90 X 5.10 X 0.70 inches

Weight

:232 g

Editorial Reviews

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
"A beautifully written, profoundly important book."

Druin Burch, author of Taking the Medicine
"A terrific account of how optimism, greed and scientific incompetence have misled us about the nature of depression and the drugs we throw at it."

Psychology Today
"[The Emperor's New Drugs] absolutely dismantles the case for antidepressants as a pharmacologically effective treatment."

Publishers Weekly
"Writing with a broad audience in mind, Kirsch expands on this important topic in a lively style with clear, cogent explanations of the science involved, and many examples of the differences between solid and flawed research. The result is a fascinating book with broad implications for science policy."

St. Petersburg Times

"Measured and laserlike in focus...The Emperor's New Drugs dismantles the case for antidepressants as a pharmacologically effective treatment."

Charlotte Observer
"Kirsch...uses clear no-nonsense prose to marshal the extraordinary and convincing evidence needed to support his position."

About the Author

Irving Kirsch, Ph.D., a native of New York City, is a professor of psychology at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, as well as professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He lives in Hull, England.

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