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Book SynopsisFROM 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 new generation of wonderdrugs? Find out in From Placebo to Panacea.
From Placebo to Panacea is not an indictment of drug therapy.Rather, it is a reasoned analysis of the efficacy of psychoactivedrugs as compared to other forms of treatment--backed by hardempirical data. Above all, it is meant to function as a therapist''sand patient''s guide to making more informed decisions whenconsidering treatment options.
The book begins with an in-depth discussion of salient problemswith standard methods of measuring the usefulness of p
Table of ContentsPartial table of contents:
CONCEPTUAL ISSUES.
The Curse of the Placebo: Fanciful Pursuit of a Pure BiologicalTherapy (S. Fisher & R. Greenberg).
Treatment Implications of Psychiatric Comorbidity (M.Greenberg).
Costly Compromises: A Critique of the Diagnostic and StatisticalManual of Mental Disorders (R. Carson).
EFFICACIES OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS FOR ADULTS.
A Critique of the Use of Neuroleptic Drugs in Psychiatry (D.Cohen).
A Focused Empirical Analysis of Treatments for Panic and Anxiety(W. Danton & D. Antonuccio).
EFFICACIES OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS FOR CHILDREN.
Are We Justified in Treating Children with PsychoactiveDrugs?
(R. Fisher & S. Fisher).
Stimulant Pharmacotherapy for Attention- Deficit/HyperactivityDisorders: An Analysis of Progress, Problems, and Prospects (C.Whalen & B. Henker).
OVERVIEW.
What Are We to Conclude About Psychoactive Drugs?: Scanning theMajor Findings (S. Fisher & R. Greenberg).
Indexes.
