David Healy follows his widely praised study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Healy argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine (more generally known as Thorazine) is as significant in the history of medicine as the discovery of penicillin, reminding readers of the worldwide prevalence of insanity within living memory.
But Healy tells not of the triumph of science but of a stream of fruitful accidents, of technological discovery leading neuroscientific research, of fierce...
David Healy follows his widely praised study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and deve...
When we stop at the pharmacy to pick up our Prozac, are we simply buying a drug? Or are we buying into a disease as well? The first complete account of the phenomenon of antidepressants, this authoritative, highly readable book relates how depression, a disease only recently deemed too rare to merit study, has become one of the most common disorders of our day--and a booming business to boot.
The Antidepressant Era chronicles the history of psychopharmacology from its inception with the discovery of chlorpromazine in 1951 to current battles over whether these powerful chemical...
When we stop at the pharmacy to pick up our Prozac, are we simply buying a drug? Or are we buying into a disease as well? The first complete accoun...
Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone who uses them?
Let Them Eat Prozac explores the history of SSRIs--from their early development to their latest marketing campaigns--and the controversies that surround them. Initially, they seemed like wonder drugs for those with mild to moderate depression. When Prozac was released in the late...
Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (...
This is volume 5 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It is a comprehensive cumulative index, and an appendix which includes a biographic register of all the contributors to the four main volumes.
This is volume 5 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It is a comprehensive cumulative index, and a...
This is volume 3 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It covers the transformation of psychopharmacology to neuropsychopharacology in the 1980s and traces the story of the CINP during that period. This is a source book, based on a collection of memoirs of those who were there.
This is volume 3 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It covers the transformation of psychopharmac...
This is volume 4 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. The series covers in autobiographical accounts the fifty years that laid the foundation of neuropsychopharmacology In this fourth volume the story of the 1990s is complemented by reflections on twentieth-century psychopharmacology by the few of those who actively participated throughout the development of the field. The series represents the first source book for a field that has been virtually undocumented. Many of the stories have relevance to current research.
This is volume 4 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. The series covers in autobiographical account...
This is volume 2 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It covers the triumph of psychopharmacology in the 1970s and traces the story of the CINP during that period. This is a source book, based on a collection of memoirs of those who were there
This is volume 2 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It covers the triumph of psychopharmacology i...
Volume 1 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It covers the rise of psychopharmacology and traces the history of the new field and of the CINP to about 1970. This is a source book, based on a collection of memoirs of those who were there.
Volume 1 of the series The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP, As Told in Autobiography. It covers the rise of psychopharmacology and traces t...
It is estimated that 45 to 50 percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly the treatment for these disorders is management with one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by general practitioners. In Pillaged, Ronald William Maris evaluates the psychiatric medications commonly used to treat several major types of psychiatric disorders-including depression and mood disorders, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychotic disorders-asking "do they work as advertised?" and, more importantly "are they safe?" Answers to these...
It is estimated that 45 to 50 percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly the treatment for t...
