The Emperor's New Drugs · Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Kirsch, Irving -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Epigraph Brand Names Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - Listening to Prozac, but Hearing Placebo

ARE ALL DRUGS CREATED EQUAL? DOUBLE-BLIND OR DOUBLE-TALK ANTIDEPRESSANTS AS ACTIVE PLACEBOS

Chapter 2 - The ‘Dirty Little Secret’

THE VANISHING DRUG EFFECT DEPRESSION SEVERITY AND ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFICACY A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY SECRETS AND REVELATIONS WHY WERE THE DRUGS APPROVED? VOODOO SCIENCE THE ASSAY SASHAY

Chapter 3 - Countering the Critics

‘ANTIDEPRESSANTS WORK IN CLINICAL PRACTICE’ CLINICAL PRACTICE VERSUS CLINICAL TRIALS: THE STAR*D TRIAL CLINICAL TRIALS ARE FLAWED SUBSEQUENT TRIALS SHOW DIFFERENT RESULTS OIL AND WATER OR GUNS AND KNIVES?

Chapter 4 - The Myth of the Chemical Imbalance

HOW THE BRAIN WORKS INVENTION OF THE CHEMICAL-IMBALANCE THEORY THE EMPIRICAL BASIS OF THE CHEMICAL-IMBALANCE THEORY DEPRESSION, DISEASE AND THE BRAIN

Chapter 5 - The Placebo Effect and the Power of Belief

THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLACEBO EFFECT THE POWER OF PLACEBO DEPRESSION AS A NOCEBO EFFECT

Chapter 6 - How Placebos Work

THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP FEELING GOOD THE SPECIFICS OF ‘NON-SPECIFIC’ EFFECTS HARNESSING THE PLACEBO EFFECT IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Chapter 7 - Beyond Antidepressants

WARNING: DO NOT DISCONTINUE ANTIDEPRESSANTS WITHOUT CONSULTATION PRESCRIBING PLACEBOS PLACEBOS WITHOUT DECEPTION PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL PLACEBO ST JOHN’S WORT PHYSICAL EXERCISE PSYCHOTHERAPY WITHOUT PSYCHOTHERAPISTS SOCIAL CHANGE

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