Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation - Rilegato

Barber, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0375423990 ISBN 13: 9780375423994

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2008

Riassunto

The Pushcart Prize-winning author of Songs from the Black Chair presents an illuminating critique of the abuse and overuse of psychiatric medications in America, revealing how drug companies create a need for a drug, the pressure Americans confront to medicate themselves, the lack of therapeutic options, and the impact of the abuse on American society. 40,000 first printing.

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“In Charles Barber's compelling new book, "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation," the author contends that we underwent a major shift in attitudes toward mental illness and medications...Barber brings a street-smart perspective to all this...[and he] offers something several of the other books don't: practical, therapeutic alternatives to antidepressants.”
—Salon.com
“A fine, informed writer on cultural history as well as neuroscience, psychotherapy, and economics, Barber convincingly argues against the overprescription of psychiatric drugs in the United States and sums up the history of U.S. psychiatry from the asylum to the community to glitzy but still elementary neuroscience. A blockbuster essential for all libraries.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“A sharply critical look at the way antidepressants are marketed and prescribed in the United States . . . Barber articulately and persuasively counsels that it’s time to abandon the quick-fix, pop-a-pill approach.”
—Kirkus
“Comfortably Numb chronicles the extraordinary psychopharmaceuticalization of everyday life that has arisen in recent years and appears to be growing apace. Barber marks out the inconvenient truths on our path to emotional climate change but also offers alternatives to readers who wish to avoid pharmageddon.”
—David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac
“In this passionate yet fair-minded book, Charles Barber explores the disturbing medicalization and medication of unhappiness in America today. The author understands that while medication has an important role to play in the treatment of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, Big Pharma has seduced Americans into believing they need drugs for the normal sorrows of life. Almost 70 percent of antidepressants worldwide are sold in the U.S. The author asks the critical question of whether Americans are crazier than the rest of the world or whether we have simply developed a crazy dependency on legal drugs.”
—Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason

L'autore:

Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay of his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times and Scientific American Mind, among other publications, and on NPR. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and lives in Connecticut with his family.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375423990
• ISBN 13: 9780375423994
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 280