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Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
Written by Gary Greenberg
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
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"Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured-not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.
In the twenty years since their introduction, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests. Upwards of 30 million Americans are taking them at an annual cost of more than $10 billion. Even more important, Greenberg argues, it has become common, if not mandatory, to think of our unhappiness as a disease that can-and should-be treated by medication. Manufacturing Depression tells the story of how we got to this peculiar point in our history.
In the twenty years since their introduction, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests. Upwards of 30 million Americans are taking them at an annual cost of more than $10 billion. Even more important, Greenberg argues, it has become common, if not mandatory, to think of our unhappiness as a disease that can-and should-be treated by medication. Manufacturing Depression tells the story of how we got to this peculiar point in our history.
Author
Gary Greenberg
Gary Greenberg is the author of the national bestseller The Pop-Up Book of Phobias, as well as The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares. He is also a nationally touring stand-up comedian, and has appeared on Comedy Central, Bravo, NPR, and USA Network, among others.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not only enlightening and educational but funny as hell!!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I no longer know who is fooling who anymore. It's charlatans all around. Probably doesn't help that the author is writing with his mind made up from the start that only paying psychoanalysts like him a lot of money will cure you of depression which on one page is and on another isn't a disease.