Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465022007)

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.

Author: Irving Kirsch
ISBN-10: 0465022006
ISBN-13: 9780465022007
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 256