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Title: Strictly Bipolar
Author: LEADER DARIAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/07/2013
Imprint: HAMISH HAMILTON
Price: $15.00
Publishing status: Active
If the post-war period was called the ‘Age of Anxiety’ and the 1980s and ’90s the ‘Antidepressant Era’, we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike, with child prescriptions this decade increasing by 400% and overall diagnoses by 4000%. What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions, Darian Leader challenges the rise of ‘bipolar’ as a catch-all solution to complex problems, and argues that we need to rethink the highs and lows of mania and depression.
ISBN: 9780241146101
Pages: 128