Losing ground
Subtitle: the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry
By: Edward Shorter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195368741
Subjects: United States. -- Food and Drug Administration; Affective disorders -- Chemotherapy -- United States -- History; Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- History; Psychopharmacology -- United States -- History; Serotonin uptake inhibitors -- Therapeutic use -- History; Psychotropic drugs industry -- United States -- History; Pharmaceutical policy -- United States -- History; Psychopharmacology -- history -- United States; Drug Approval -- history -- United States; Government Agencies -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Mood Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States; Psychotropic Drugs -- history -- United States
Description: Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle to treat depression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before psychopharmacology; title: The first drug set; title: Power play; title: Killer drugs!; title: Death sentences; title: The plague of affective disorders; title: Losing ground; title: What now?.