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    Coping

    Three takes on the psychology of over-medication: a history of psychiatry, an exuberant novel full of self- medicaters, and a memoir of recovery on the margins.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Tom Lutz • Aug 14, 2012 • 3m Listen

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    All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

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    Dead Stars

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    Crazy Brave

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      Tom Lutz

      Los Angeles Review of Books

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