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Psychiatry's Manufacture of Consent
The Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
Levine, Bruce E. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/14/psychiatrys-manufacture-of-consent/
Publisher: Counterpunch
Date Written: 14/05/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Starting in the 1990s — despite research findings that levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin were unrelated to depression — Americans began to be exposed to highly effective television commercials for antidepressants that portrayed depression as caused by a “chemical imbalance” of low levels of serotonin and which could be treated with “chemically balancing” antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
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