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20%OFFIrving Kirsch - The Emperor´s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth - 9781847920836 - V9781847920836
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The Emperor´s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

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Description for The Emperor´s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth Paperback. Documents how the data were suppressed by the drug companies and how government regulatory agencies collaborated in withholding them from public view. This book shows that the chemical imbalance theory is simply wrong and that it has been disproven by scientific evidence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: KNDP; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 266.

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true.

How did antidepressant drugs gain their reputation as a magic bullet for depression? And why has it taken so long for the story to become public? Answering these questions takes us to the point where the lines between clinical research and marketing disappear altogether.

Using the Freedom of Information Act, Kirsch accessed clinical trials that were withheld, by drug companies, from the public and from the doctors who prescribe antidepressants. What he found, and what he documents here, promises to bring revolutionary change to the way our society perceives, and consumes, antidepressants.

The Emperor's New Drugs exposes what we have failed to see before: depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain; antidepressants are significantly more dangerous than other forms of treatment and are only marginally more effective than placebos; and, there are other ways to combat depression, treatments that don't only include the empty promise of the antidepressant prescription.

This is not a book about alternative medicine and its outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful thinking in the heart of clinical medicine, about the seductions of myth, and the final stubbornness of facts.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847920836
SKU
V9781847920836
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About Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch is a lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a professor of psychology at Plymouth University, as well as professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Hull, and the University of Connecticut. He has published eight books and numerous scientific articles on placebo effects, antidepressant medication, hypnosis, and suggestion. His work has appeared in Science, Science News, New Scientist, New York Times, Newsweek, and BBC Focus and many other leading magazines, newspapers, and television documentaries.

Reviews for The Emperor´s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
A beautifully written, profoundly important book that is sure to shake up the psychiatric establishment and pharmaceutical industry... This book is long overdue and I hope that people will pay attention. Kudos to Dr. Kirsch!
David D. Burns M.D., author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Irving Kirsch brilliantly documents a grim scandal of regulatory and clinical failures concerning antidepressants but also holds out hope
David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression 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
Druin Burch, author of Taking the Medicine Wide scope, smooth delivery, and mastery of the data
www.popularscience.co.uk
A fascinating and disturbing book
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