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/
Date Written: 2014-05-14
Publisher: Counterpunch
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX16304
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).
