Greenberg, Gary
Manufacturing depression : the secret history of a modern disease - New York Simon & Schuster c2010 - 432p.; 22cm.
Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets—doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives. Doctors, and drug companies, claim that this convergence is a public health triumph: the recognition and treatment of an under-diagnosed illness. Gary Greenberg, a practicing therapist and longtime depressive, raises a more disturbing possibility: that the disease has been manufactured to suit (and sell) the cure.
9781416569800
Social problems and social services
People with mental illness and disabilities
Neuroses
Depression
Mental--United States--History
Antidepressants
362.25 GRE/M
Manufacturing depression : the secret history of a modern disease - New York Simon & Schuster c2010 - 432p.; 22cm.
Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets—doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives. Doctors, and drug companies, claim that this convergence is a public health triumph: the recognition and treatment of an under-diagnosed illness. Gary Greenberg, a practicing therapist and longtime depressive, raises a more disturbing possibility: that the disease has been manufactured to suit (and sell) the cure.
9781416569800
Social problems and social services
People with mental illness and disabilities
Neuroses
Depression
Mental--United States--History
Antidepressants
362.25 GRE/M