Edited by Seymour Fisher and Roger P. Greenberg. 404 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1997. $49.95. ISBN 0-471-14848-2.
This book, written entirely by academic psychologists, is adose of strong medicine. A critical review of the psychoactive-drugliterature, it asserts essentially that there is inadequatescientific information to conclude that psychoactive drugs aresubstantially more effective than placebos. The editors remindus that the interpretation of any research data is likely toreflect the researcher's bias: in this case, a bias toward biologictreatment, the pharmaceutical industry's financial motives,or both. They say, "We feel it is important to balance thisbias by adopting a counterattitude based on a determined skepticism."Their intellectual, scholarly review is difficult to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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