23 Quotes by Irving Kirsch

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

Although higher doses of antidepressants can produce more side effects,11 they do not produce greater reductions in depression.

When an active placebo is used, most clinical trials do not show a significant benefit for antidepressants.