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Comfortably Numb.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Comfortably Numb.(Book review)

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Comfortably Numb

Charles Barber

Pantheon Books

www.randomhouse.com

282 pp., $26

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In Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation, Charles Barber recognizes what lawyers who handle pharmaceutical products liability litigation have known for years: Drug companies create a marketplace using direct television advertising and attractive salespeople to push samples on physicians, who in turn prescribe these heavily marketed drugs to their patients.

Barber, a Yale University School of Medicine psychiatry lecturer, documents in great detail how the pharmaceutical industry works and how it relies on flimsy science. He believes that prescription medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, like Prozac, have their place but should be used as a last resort. Instead, Barber advocates cognitive behavioral therapy, which recognizes that all people experience highs and lows as a natural part of life.

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