Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Greenberg, Gary
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Greenberg, Gary

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our...
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Author: Gary Greenberg
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Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Greenberg, Gary

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

CHF 22.34
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Greenberg, Gary

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

CHF 22.34
Author: Gary Greenberg
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets--doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives. Doctors, and drug companies, claim that this convergence is a public health triumph: the recognition and treatment of an under-diagnosed illness. Gary Greenberg, a practicing therapist and longtime depressive, raises a more disturbing possibility: that the disease has been manufactured to suit (and sell) the cure.

Greenberg draws on sources ranging from the Bible to current medical journals to show how the idea that unhappiness is an illness has been packaged and sold by brilliant scientists and shrewd marketing experts--and why it has been so successful. Part memoir, part intellectual history, part exposé--including a vivid chronicle of his participation in a clinical antidepressant trial--Manufacturing Depression is an incisive look at an epidemic that has changed the way we have come to think of ourselves.

Author: Gary Greenberg
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 02/08/2011
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.61w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781416569800

About the Author
Greenberg, Gary: - Gary Greenberg is a practicing psychotherapist in Connecticut and author of The Noble Lie. He has written about the intersection of science, politics, and ethics for many publications, including Harper's, the New Yorker, Wired, Discover, Rolling Stone, and Mother Jones, where he's a contributing writer.

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