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by Irving Kirsch

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Do antidepressants work? Of course--everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving 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. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research--a thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration data--has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion.

The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what had seemed a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus. But Kirsch does more than just criticize: he offers a path society can follow so that we stop popping pills and start proper treatment for depression.

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  • Title The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
  • Author Irving Kirsch
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ)
  • Publication date 2010-01
  • ISBN 9780465020164 / 046502016X
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 6.62 x 0.85 in (21.49 x 16.81 x 2.16 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Self-Help
  • Library of Congress subjects Depression, Mental - Treatment, Antidepressants - Effectiveness
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009937860
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

About the author

Irving Kirsch, a native of New York City, is a professor of psychology at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut. His research has been published in the British Medical Journal and covered in USA Today, New Scientist, the New York Times, Newsweek, and more. He currently lives in Hull, United Kingdom.
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