Emperor's New Drugs

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn''t true.

How did antidepressant drugs gain their reputation as a magic bullet for depression? And why has it taken so long for the story to become publi...