Alternative Mental Health News- Book Review: Let Them Eat Prozac

[Guest guest]

Book Review: Let Them Eat Prozacindex

Psychiatrist David Healy began his career much like many other psychiatrists,

using the usual medications to treat his clients symptoms. He even consulted for

pharmaceutical firms. But along the way, he saw and heard of severe problems

connected with the antidepressants called SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake

inhibitors).

He saw suicidal tendencies and other severe effects emerging from a sizable

minority of patients. The further he dug into the studies of SSRIs, the more

frightening the data became.

Then Dr. Healy did what he thought was the ethical thing to do: He tried to

bring these revelations to the attention of his medical colleagues. He had a

rude awakening.

Let Them Eat Prozac is Healy's fascinating blow-by-blow account of his detective

work and the aftermath that followed. We see how his colleagues warned him not

to tell, how the pressure followed from drug company executives, and how he was

fired from a university for telling the truth.

Most of all, Healy lays out the chilling facts of how suicides increase on SSRI

medication, facts which have now prompted authorities to ban most SSRIs on

children in Healy's native England, thanks to his work.

Let Them Eat Prozac is a powerful read. He brings a rare integrity to his

profession.

More Information... More information about the book Let Them Eat Prozac is

currently available from Canadian publisher Lorimer. A release in the United

States is scheduled for June of 2004 by NYU Press.

 

 

 

 

 

Find out what made the Top Searches of 2003