Comments on: How Anecdotes Sell Drugs: On the 30th Anniversary Edition of “Listening to Prozac” https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/how-anecdotes-sell-drugs-on-the-30th-anniversary-edition-of-listening-to-prozac/ Science, Psychiatry & Social Justice Fri, 31 May 2024 11:48:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: John Hoggett https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/how-anecdotes-sell-drugs-on-the-30th-anniversary-edition-of-listening-to-prozac/#comment-282094 Fri, 31 May 2024 11:48:04 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256836#comment-282094 The whole review is well worth reading. It exposes big pharma marketing had more to do with the popularity of these drugs than anything and that Kramer is a lying toad who should have stuck to writing novels and stopped being a doctor. He is a sham.

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]]> By: Karl Wick, NP https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/how-anecdotes-sell-drugs-on-the-30th-anniversary-edition-of-listening-to-prozac/#comment-282065 Fri, 31 May 2024 04:55:49 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256836#comment-282065 Ha I just got my copy of Talking Back to Prozac by Peter Breggin and about to start reading it. Now I realize that the Breggin book, also released in 1994, must have been a response to Kramer’s Listening to Prozac.

Interesting that in the article linked above the writer points out that Dr. Kramer disingenuously acknowledges at the very end of the updated version that some of the basic premises of the book were false and that the promise of personality change through medication that he had confidently trumpeted fell flat.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/05/how-anecdotes-sell-drugs-on-the-30th-anniversary-edition-of-listening-to-prozac/#comment-282052 Fri, 31 May 2024 03:04:20 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=256836#comment-282052 Fantastic book review.

Interesting how Peter Kramer initially studied to become a fiction writer. It seems his dream came true.

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