The emperor's new drugs : exploding the antidepressant myth

Author(s)

• Kirsch, Irving

Bibliographic Information

The emperor's new drugs : exploding the antidepressant myth

Irving Kirsch

Basic Books, 2009, c2010

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-218) and index

Contents of Works

• Listening to Prozac, but hearing placebo
• The "dirty little secret"
• Countering the critics
• The myth of the chemical imbalance
• The placebo effect and the power of belief
• How placebos work
• Beyond antidepressants

Details

• NCID: BB07739277
• ISBN:
  • 9780465020164
• LCCN: 2009937860
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 226 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 615/.78
  • LCC : RM332
  • NLM : QV77.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Antidepressants -- Effectiveness
  • LCSH : Psychotropic drugs
  • MESH : Antidepressive Agents
  • MESH : Depression -- drug therapy
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