We've Got Issues : Children and Parents in the Age of Medication

by Warner, Judith (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781594487545
• ISBN10: 1594487545
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover

Summary

Warner considers children and psychotherapeutic medicine: whether drug companies hold too much sway, whether doctors over-prescribe, but also whether troubled boys and girls might sometimes need more help than they get today."--Peter D. Kramer ("Listening to Prozac").

Author Biography

Judith Warner is the author of the New York Times- bestselling Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety and Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story, as well as several other books. She writes the "Domestic Disturbances" column for the New York Times website and is a former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
UNTITLED on Affluent Parents and Neurotic Kids	p. 7
Seeing Is Believing	p. 31
An Epidemic of Supposition	p. 49
Aren't They All on Medication?	p. 65
Who, Exactly, Is Having Issues?	p. 91
"B-a-d" Children, Worse Parents (and Even Worse Doctors)	p. 117
Stuck in the Cuckoo's Nest	p. 145
Ritalin Nation?	p. 171
The Stories We Tell	p. 191
A "Better Time Than Ever"	p. 209
Moving Forward	p. 233
Acknowledgments	p. 251
Notes	p. 253
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 309
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