CHARLES BARBER
Monday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale, whose background includes a decade working with mentally ill homeless people, visits with a timely, important book on one of the larger drug problems facing the U.S., that of psychiatrically-prescribed drugs, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation (Pantheon). "Comfortably Numb chronicles the extraordinary psychopharmaceutalization of everyday life that has arisen in recent years and appears to be growing apace. Charles Barber marks out the inconvenient truths on our path to emotional climate change but also offers alternative to readers who wish to avoid pharmageddon." – David Healy.

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