from Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights International

In “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth,” just released in paperback, psychology professor Irving Kirsch argues that antidepressant drugs are not effective and that the idea of depression as a chemical imbalance in the brain is pure myth. Kirsch provides what he says is evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebo pills.

Read the entire article here: http://www.cchrint.org/2011/03/08/the-emperors-new-drugs-exploding-the-antidepressant-myth/

Original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704079.html