Before Prozac : the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry

Before Prozac : the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry /

Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground"...

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Main Author: Shorter, Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Subjects:
Affective disorders > Chemotherapy > United States > History.
Psychotropic drugs > United States > History.
Psychopharmacology > United States > History.
Serotonin uptake inhibitors > Therapeutic use > History.
Psychotropic drugs industry > United States > History.
Pharmaceutical policy > United States > History.
1900s
Depression > history
Drug Approval > history
Fluoxetine > history
Mood Disorders > drug therapy
Psychopharmacology > history
Psychotropic Drugs > history
Amphetamines > history
Antidepressive Agents > history
Barbiturates > history
Benzodiazepines > history
Drug Industry > history
Government Agencies > history
Histamine Antagonists > history
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors > therapeutic use
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors > history
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