The most gripping portions of Let Them Eat Prozac [by David Healy] narrate courtroom battles in which Big Pharma’s lawyers, parrying negligence suits by the bereaved, took this line of doubletalk to its limit by explaining SSRI-induced stabbings, shootings, and self-hangings by formerly peaceable individuals as manifestations of not-yet-subdued depression.
Yeah. From an excellent book review. The author of the review, an English professor, doesn’t understand methodology, but the facts are nicely presented. I assigned some of Healy’s book to my students. Healy did experiments that showed that Prozac caused suicidal thinking in a non-trivial fraction of ordinary people.
Seth, you don’t the history of Psychology. I know the history of Psychology.
ha, just joking.
Tom Cruise had a point.