Ours is a Psychiatric Movement:A conversation with His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada

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http://prabhupadaconnect.com/lecture7.html

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Certainly, psychiatric Krishna Consciousness is a much more sound science than mundane psychiatry.

 

 

http://www.motherjones.com<wbr>/news/feature/2003/11/ma_565<wbr>_01.html

 

 

New research suggests that the miracles promised by antidepressants may be largely due to the placebo effect. Too bad there's no money to be made in sugar pills.

 

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The FDA does not consider, however, the relative advantage that new drugs show over placebo. So long as the difference is statistically significant -- meaning that the results are not merely random -- a drug can be advertised as "safe and effective" whether clinical trials proved it to be 5 percent or 50 percent or 500 percent more effective than an inert pill. In the case of the Prozac generation of antidepressants, marketing efforts have paid off wildly. Some 92 million prescriptions were written for the top six antidepressants in 2002, a ubiquity that has, far more than any research, helped to bolster the theory that depression is the result of a biochemical imbalance that the drugs cure -- a theory that has not been proved, despite more than 40 years of trying.