The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot
  • Published: 2 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407073637
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 25
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The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot

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BRAIN SHOTS: The Byte-sized exposé of the pharmaceutical industry

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.

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.

BRAIN SHOTS: The Byte-sized exposé of the pharmaceutical industry
  • Published: 2 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407073637
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 25
Categories:

About the author

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. He is the author of The Emperor's New Drugs.

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Praise for The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot

A beautifully written, profoundly important book that is sure to shake up the psychiatric establishment and pharmaceutical industry.

David D. Burns M.D., author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

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

A fascinating and disturbing book

Literary Review

Kirsch's account of the background and assumptions of the "chemical imbalance" theory of depression is helpfully clear, and his damning critique convincing. Similarly, his explanation of placebos and how they work allows the reader to get to grips with some fascinating possibilities.

David Smail, Times Higher Education Supplement
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