Tuesday, January 12, 2010

"Take for instance this Web site text advertising the antidepressant Paxil: 'Just as a cake recipe requires you to use flour, sugar and baking powder in the right amounts, your brain needs a fine chemical balance in order to perform at its best.' The Western mind, endlessly analyzed by generations of theorists and researchers, has now been reduced to a batter of chemicals we carry around in the mixing bowl of our skulls."

The Americanization of Mental Illness by Ethan Watters in The New York Times Magazine

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