From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the Test

by Seymour Fisher

FROM PLACEBO TO PANACEA

With the latest generation of psychoactive drugs, has pharmacologyat last triumphed over mental illness? A close look at worldscientific literature would suggest otherwise. The sobering truthis that many claims about the efficacy of drug therapies foreverything from depression to schizophrenia have been exaggerated.What, then, accounts for the inflated confidence clinicians and thelay public alike often have in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471148482
• ISBN13: 9780471148487
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"