Psychotropicana
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: The realities of depression, 11 July 2002
La Fatigue d’être soi: Dépression et société
by Alain Ehrenberg.
Odile Jacob, 414 pp., €8.35, August 2001,2 7381 0859 8 Show More
by Alain Ehrenberg.
Odile Jacob, 414 pp., €8.35, August 2001,
Comment la Dépression est devenue une épidémie
by Philippe Pignarre.
Découverte, 92 pp., €14.48, September 2001,2 7071 3517 8 Show More
by Philippe Pignarre.
Découverte, 92 pp., €14.48, September 2001,
“... how is it that the illness is spreading ever more widely? These books by Alain Ehrenberg and Philippe Pignarre, along with a third, published a few years ago by David Healy,* forcefully underscore the incongruous fact that depression was never so prevalent as it has been since the introduction of antidepressants. It has always been with us, though ... ”
