| Description |
xii, 404 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Partial table of contents: -- Conceptual Issues. -- The Curse of the Placebo: Fanciful Pursuit of a Pure Biological Therapy (S. Fisher & R. Greenberg). -- Treatment Implications of Psychiatric Comorbidity (M. Greenberg). -- Costly Compromises: A Critique of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 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 Psychoactive Drugs? -- (R. Fisher & S. Fisher). -- Stimulant Pharmacotherapy for Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders: An Analysis of Progress, Problems, and Prospects (C. Whalen & B. Henker). -- Overview. -- What Are We to Conclude About Psychoactive Drugs?: Scanning the Major Findings (S. Fisher & R. Greenberg). -- Indexes |
| Summary |
From Placebo to Panacea examines the clinical research into outcomes of common drug therapies for most major mental disorders in adults and children; offers analyses of the effectiveness of most common psychotropics in both controlled trials and clinical settings; explores technical and psychosocial factors that frequently bias test results in favor of drug therapies; provides critical, empirically based appraisal of the strengths and limitations of drug-based treatment for psychiatric disorders; and compares the relative effectiveness of drug therapy versus nondrug therapies and placebos |
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Is the new generation of psychoactive "wonder drugs" really as effective as it is purported to be? And, perhaps most significant, in an age of managed care, what are the dangers of uncritical faith in the usefulness of these drugs? From Placebo to Panacea examines these questions. It separates fact from fiction, and injects a note of healthy questioning into the otherwise unreserved chorus of praise for psychotropics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Chemotherapy -- Evaluation.
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Placebos (Medicine)
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Psychiatry -- Differential therapeutics.
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Psychotropic drugs -- Effectiveness.
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Mental Disorders -- drug therapy.
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Placebos -- therapeutic use.
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Psychotropic Drugs -- therapeutic use.
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| Author |
Fisher, Seymour.
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Greenberg, Roger P.
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| LC no. |
97001074 |
| ISBN |
0471148482 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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