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

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Sun Sep 27 17:02:38 PDT 2009


At 06:37 PM 9/27/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:


>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.

actually, i saw that as a dubious attempt to pretend concession to a point, and then trying to exploit this concession as a way to call me a hypocrite. :)

kelley



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