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What Are (and What Are Not) the Existential Implications of Antidepressant Use?
- Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 12, Number 2, June 2005
- pp. 119-128
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The advent of second-generation antidepressant drugs has brought with it a new debate about the greater social and psychological implications of medication treatment. Many of the concerns raised have been critical of excessive use of antidepressant agents. In this paper I attempt to characterize some of these concerns as existential in nature. Having done so, I attempt to show that such concerns are misapplied and misplaced.