Antidepressant Resources Suggested Reading
The following list provides some of the available resources dealing with many aspects of antidepressants.

Our Daily Meds by Melody Petersen

The Emperor’s New Drugs by Irving Kirsch

The Myth of the Chemical Cure by Joana Moncrieff

Mad In America by Robert Whitaker

Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

The Medicalization of Society by Peter Conrad

Over-diagnosed by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch

Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee

Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill by Kelly Patricia O’Meara

Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives (Paperback) by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Dr. Marcia Angell

Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs by Jerry Avorn, M.D.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber

Prescription for Disaster: the Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet by Thomas J. Moore

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

The Antidepressant Solution by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen

Big Pharma by Jacky Law

Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs by Stephen M. Fried

Medicines Out of Control: Antidepressants And The Conspiracy Of Goodwill by Charles Medawar and Anita Hardon

The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman by Peter Rost, M.D

On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health by Jerome P. Kassirer

The Anti-depressant Era by Dr. David Healy

Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Today’s Most Controversial Drug by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

Making Us Crazy by Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk

The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial by John Cornwell

Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Elliot Valenstein

From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the Test by Seymour Fisher et al.

Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Suffering without Drugs by Dr. Terry Lynch

Dying for a Cure: A Memoir of Antidepressants, Misdiagnosis and Madness by Rebekah Beddoe

The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs By Merrill Goozner

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness By Christopher Lane
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Exerpt — Bashful No More, Wall Street Journal