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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

Allan Horwitz

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Jerome Wakefield:

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

Bruce Wagner

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Dead Stars

Joy Harjo

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Crazy Brave

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    Tom Lutz

    Los Angeles Review of Books

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