The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot

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By Irving Kirsch

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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

The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot