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Ordinarily well : the case for antidepressants / Peter D. Kramer.
Author
Kramer, Peter D.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
©2016
Description
xxii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RM332 .K73 2016
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Antidepressants
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Summary note
"Do antidepressants actually work, or are they just glorified dummy pills? How can we tell one way or the other? In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer addresses the growing mistrust of antidepressants among the medical establishment and the broader public by taking the long view. He charts the history of the drugs' development and the research that tests their worth, from the Swiss psychiatrist Roland Kuhn's pioneering midcentury discovery of imipramine's antidepressant properties to recent controversial studies suggesting that medications like Prozac and Paxil may be no better than placebos in alleviating symptoms. He unpacks the complex "inside baseball" of psychiatry--statistics--and reveals the fascinating ways that clinical studies and their results can be combined, manipulated, and skewed toward a desired conclusion. All the while, Kramer never loses sight of the patients themselves. He writes with deep empathy about his own clinical encounters over the decades as he weighed treatments, analyzed trial results, and considered the idiosyncrasies each case presented. As Kramer sees it, we must respect human complexity and the value of psychotherapy without denying the truth--that depression is a serious and destructive illness that demands the most effective treatment available"-- Provided by publisher.
"An eminent psychologist and writer discusses the value of antidepressant drugs"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-278) and index.
Contents
The birth of the modern
Interlude : anecdote
Random thoughts
As Max saw it
Interlude : the antithesis of science
Off the hook
Interlude : my sins
Permission
Interlude : what he came here for
Anti-depressed
Interlude : transitions
Big splash
Alchemy
Interlude : providence
Best reference
Better, faster, cheaper
Interlude : tolerably good
Better than well
Interlude : old dream
Spotting trout
Hypothetical counterfactual
Two plus two
In plain sight
Trajectories
No myth
Interlude : pitch-perfect
Trials
Sham
Elaboration
Interlude : slogging
Lowliness
Washout
All comers
Interlude : cotherapy
How we're doing
Steady as she goes
Interlude : nightmare
Interlude : for my sins
Interlude : practicing
We are the 38 percent
What we know.
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ISBN
9780374280673 ((hardback))
0374280673 ((hardback))
LCCN
2015036472
OCLC
918995058
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