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Kramer, Peter D. author.
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Antidepressants -- History.
Antidepressants -- Effectiveness.
Psychotropic drugs.
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Ordinarily well : th...
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Ordinarily well : the case for
antidepressants
/ Peter D. Kramer.
by
Kramer, Peter D. author.
Subjects
Antidepressants
--
History.
Antidepressants
--
Effectiveness
.
Psychotropic drugs.
Publisher Info:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780374280673
0374280673
9780374708962
Contents:
The birth of the modern
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Interlude : anecdote
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Random thoughts
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As Max saw it
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Interlude : the antithesis of science
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Off the hook
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Interlude : my sins
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Permission
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Interlude : what he came here for
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Anti-depressed
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Interlude : transitions
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Big splash
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Alchemy
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Interlude : providence
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Best reference
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Better, faster, cheaper
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Interlude : tolerably good
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Better than well
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Interlude : old dream
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Spotting trout
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Hypothetical counterfactual
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Two plus two
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In plain sight
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Trajectories
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No myth
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Interlude : pitch-perfect
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Trials
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Sham
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Elaboration
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Interlude : slogging
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Lowliness
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Washout
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All comers
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Interlude : cotherapy
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How we're doing
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Steady as she goes
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Interlude : nightmare
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Interlude : for my sins
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Interlude : practicing
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We are the 38 percent
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What we know.
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Summary:
"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"
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"An eminent psychologist and writer discusses the value of antidepressant drugs"
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