October 27, 2004
we've never had it so good
Is our culture a drug culture, as the distinction between pills for medication and for recreation blurs and becomes fuzzy?
Leunig
A little overweight from working the long hours? Feeling a little stressed? Here's some pills to fix things, courtesy of the local GP. The local family practice has plenty of anti-depressant happy pills to help us achieve happiness. The old idea of therapeutic philosophy has been long forgotten.
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Were the 1990s a case of goodbye Freud hello prozac? A shift from talk to pills?
The consequences of prozac as a therapeutic tool used to treat our mental health.
Does this signify a transition from unconscious to biology in which the assumptions of psychoanalysis had been banished and replaced with brain chemistry?