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On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
By Ghaemi, Nassir
- ISBN
- 9781421409337 9781421409344
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins
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Reviewed on July 26, 2013 | Nonfiction
Ghaemi (director, Mood Disorders Program, Tufts Univ. Sch. of Medicine; A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness) emphasizes the relationship between therapist and patient. His vigorous critique of psychoanalysis, prescription drugs ("Pharmageddon"), and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) stands out among recent books on the decline of psychiatry, a profession that now occupies "the same place sci...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
