Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

American doctors dispense approximately 230 million antidepressant prescriptions every year, more than any other class of medication. Charles Barber explores this disturbing phenomenon, examining the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it. Most importantly, he convincingly argues that, without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches are tragically overlooked in favor of an instant cure for all emotional difficulties.Compulsively readable and urgently relevant, Comfortably Numb is an unprecedented account of the impact of psychiatric medications on American culture and on Americans themselves.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 02/10/2009
ISBN: 9780307274953
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.24w x 0.69d