Is Everybody Happy?

PK: Peter Breggin is mostly against the use of medication for the treatment of depression altogether. The recent book by Joseph Glenmullen [Prozac Backlash] has to do with legitimate concerns about the effect of antidepressants on dopamine. Some of these medicines, when used long-term, may affect other chemicals in the brain, and there are theoretical reasons for thinking that's a bad thing. Glenmullen does pay some attention to Listening to Prozac, but I think he misrepresents it. Listening to Prozac was really more a philosophical book about how the self is redefined in a culture that has biological instruments for changing things that previously were changed through religion or talk therapy.