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- Critiques antidepressant research and clinical practice
- Posits that conflicts of interest have distorted scientific evidence
- Dissects the “economies of influence” compromising the literature
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The transformation of the diagnostic concept of depression from a rare but serious disorder to an over-inclusive, highly prevalent but predominantly mild and self-limiting disorder is central to the books argument. It maintains that biological reductionism in psychiatry and pharmaceutical marketing reframed depression as a brain disorder, corroboratingthe overemphasis on drug treatment in both research and practice.
Finally, the author goes on to explore how pharmaceutical companies have distorted the scientific literature on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants and how patient advocacy groups, leading academics, and medical organisations with pervasive financial ties to the industry helped to promote systematically biased benefit-harm evaluations, affecting public attitudes towards antidepressants as well as medical education, training, and practice.
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Book Title: Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription
Book Subtitle: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest
Authors: Michael P. Hengartner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82587-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82586-7Published: 10 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82589-8Published: 11 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82587-4Published: 09 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 354
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Psychopathology, Public Health