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So interesting. So far, this book offers alternative perspectives to why pharmaceutical drug trials have had so much success, disease- vs drug-centred models to mental disorders and why the disease-centred model took off in psychiatry.

Lithium is toxic and not found to occur naturally in the body. Its benefits are limited and due to it being a neurotoxin. Olanzapine an neuroleptic ('antipsychotic') is now used first, however long term usage causes brain damage, not to mention weight gain.

If you really want to understand antidepressant research up to 2008 read no further, can't wait to read 2025's Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.