Links in “Book Reviews”
- The Truth About Drug Companies by Marcia Angell
A well researched introduction to Big Pharma - how it works.
- America’s Depression Diagnoses Epidemic and How to Fix It
A new book reveals why a third of Americans convinced themselves they’re depressed—and what we can do to get sensible diagnoses. Historian Edward Shorter speaks to Jesse Singal about depression hysteria. In his new book How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown, the University of Toronto historian of psychiatry Edward Shorter takes aim at the what he sees as the massive overdiagnosis of depression in America.
- A Review of The Bitterest Pills by Joanna Moncrieff, MD
- ‘The Book of Woe’ – Psychiatry’s Last Stand
An account of the making of the new DSM questions whether psychiatry is — or should be — a science