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This engaging, well-written book begins with a harrowing account of the author's own struggle to go off his meds. While this is certainly a gripping way to begin the book, it is more important in establishing Karp's credentials as someone who knows first hand what psychiatric drugs can do. The fifty subjects interviewed for the book range from teenagers to retirees and represent a variety of occupations, from high school and university students to medical doctors. The book is organized loosely around the trajectory those on meds tend to follow: from initial encounter, to enthusiasm and cooperation, to rebellion and finally to acceptance. Karp has a philosophical, almost spiritual take on the relationship between human beings and psychiatric medication: "In contrast to other medications ... psychotropic drugs ... act on-and perhaps even create-people's consciousness and, therefore, have profound effects on the nature of their identities." Though a proponent of antidepressants, Karp's book goes beyond an examination of drug effects to question "exactly what makes us human," and examine those human qualities that allow medication to do its work, among them hope, communication and the ability to learn from our suffering. Karp's use of interviews rather than statistics will resonate with those interested in narrative approaches to the social sciences, and his straightforward explanations of complex psychiatric concepts make the book accessible to those without a background in research psychiatry.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Early on, Karp states that his goal in writing this book is to let those who practice the healing arts "know that human beings are not inanimate receptacles for medical treatments." The sociology professor wants to do this because he believes that medical professionals rarely think about anything but a psychiatric drug's effect on biological cells, and that the same drug can have vastly different effects on different persons or on the same person at different times in his or her life. Laying bare his own lifelong struggle with depression and often having to juggle a veritable cocktail of drugs, Karp says he has often wondered whether his personality is his own or just some kicked-up by-product of the meds. Even though the answer remains elusive, at least for him, he seems to be in good company, and his story combines with the alternately plaintive and upbeat psychiatric drug experiences of 50 interviewees, all diagnosed with various mental illnesses, to put a poignant face behind the title question. Donna ChavezCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Author(s) Book :David A. Karp
Publish Year :2006 Publisher : Harvard University Press
You can check by ISBN10/ISBN13 : 0674021827/9780674021822
Pages :304

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