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Fisher - From Placebo to Panacea - 9780471148487 - V9780471148487
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From Placebo to Panacea

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Description for From Placebo to Panacea Hardcover. A comprehensive appraisal of what is and isn't known about the effectiveness of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The authors offer critical, research-based appraisals of the strengths and limitations of drug-based treatments. Editor(s): Fisher, Seymour; Greenberg, Roger P. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMBT; MMGW; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 854.
FROM PLACEBO TO PANACEA

With the latest generation of psychoactive drugs, has pharmacologyat last triumphed over mental illness? A close look at worldscientific literature would suggest otherwise. The sobering truthis that many claims about the efficacy of drug therapies foreverything from depression to schizophrenia have been exaggerated.What, then, accounts for the inflated confidence clinicians and thelay public alike often have in the new generation of "wonderdrugs"? Find out in From Placebo to Panacea.

From Placebo to Panacea is not an indictment of drug therapy.Rather, it is a reasoned analysis of the efficacy of psychoactivedrugs ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471148487
SKU
V9780471148487
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Fisher
SEYMOUR FISHER, PhD, was, until his death in 1996, Professor in theDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the StateUniversity of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse. Dr.Fisher received his doctorate in clinical psychology from theUniversity of Chicago. His previous books include Development andStructure of the Body Image, Sexual Images of the Self, ThePsychology of Adaptation to Absurdity, and ... Read more

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