[lbo-talk] Let them eat Prozac (was: let's argue about the cause ofmental illness

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 27 15:37:30 PDT 2009


On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:26 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> you should probably try reading the source of the quotes carrol. you
> go on a needless rant that has little to do with what Healey is
> writing about and why. the only klewbyfour i'll throw your way is
> that Healey is a psychiatrist who did his research on seratonin
> reuptake and thinks it would be a bad thing were SSRIs demonized b/c
> they are addictive.

It's amazing that Carrol's fatalism even extends to *treatments* for depression. Psychoanalysis is a fraud, and drugs are dubious.



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