Comfortably Numb by Charles Barber: A Review
Posted in Big Pharma, Freud, PTSD, brain and behavior, cognitive-behavior therapy, human problems, medical model, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology in the media, psychotherapy, psychotropic drugs, science and psychology on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
From Biological Psychiatry to Aplysia californica. Recently read Charles Barber’s Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, a book noted elsewhere on this blog. It’s a compelling read that covers a lot of ground — the rise of Big Pharma and what he calls “The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry” (a history of how psychiatry [...]
