@article{320641,
      author = {Barber, Charles,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/320641},
      title = {Comfortably numb : how psychiatry is medicating a nation  /},
      publisher = {Pantheon Books,},
      abstract = {Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed  dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere more  than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans.  In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were  dispensed in the United States, more than any other class  of medication; that year, the United States accounted for  66% of the global market. Here, psychiatrist Barber  provides a context for this disturbing phenomenon. He  explores the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first  create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it, and he  reveals the increasing pressure Americans are under to  medicate themselves. Most importantly, he argues that  without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical  approaches that could have the potential to help millions  are tragically overlooked by a nation that sees drugs as an  instant cure for all emotional difficulties.--From  publisher description.},
      recid = {320641},
      pages = {xix, 280 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2008},
}