Description: Drawing heavily on primary sources and supplemented with interviews and insight gained over Healy's long career, this lucid and engaging overview of mania sheds new light on one of humankind's most vexing ailments.
Brief description: David Healy is a professor of psychiatry and the director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine at Cardiff University. He is the author of several books on the history of psychopharmaceuticals, including Let Them Eat Prozac, The Antidepressant Era, and The Creation of Psychopharmacology.
Review Quotes: David Healy is indeed an enfant terrible--and a very brave man. I doubt he is on Eli Lilly's or Pfizer's Christmas card list.
--Times Literary Supplement