“We are witnessing the rise of the anti-antidepressants. The ’90s, of course, were the age of Prozac, a decade when a class of antidepressants called SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) came to dominate psychological treatment and public discusssion about why life in America had become such a downer — even before 9/11. After Prozac’s FDA approval in 1987, some 80 million new prescriptions for antidepressants were written in the next 10 years. … Yet the recent volley of books represents more than an attack on our current overreliance on drug therapy to treat depression. They rip into the massive sales of the drug companies, dispute the medical thinking behind doping the populace and question whether the antidepressant advocates understand depression, happiness or the human mind.” (01/29/08)