Greenberg, Gary <br/><br/>
Manufacturing depression : the secret history of a modern disease 

 - New York  Simon & Schuster  c2010 
 - 432p.; 22cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416569800 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social problems and social services<br/>People with mental illness and disabilities<br/>Neuroses<br/>Depression<br/>Mental--United States--History<br/>Antidepressants
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.25 GRE/M