The emperor's new drugs
Subtitle: exploding the antidepressant myth
By: Irving Kirsch
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780465020164
Subjects: Effectiveness; Antidepressants
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening to Prozac, but hearing placebo; title: The "dirty little secret"; title: Countering the critics; title: The myth of the chemical imbalance; title: The placebo effect and the power of belief; title: How placebos work; title: Beyond antidepressants.