“Bedazzled by the prospect of unraveling the mysteries of psychic suffering, researchers have spent…

“Bedazzled by the prospect of unraveling the mysteries of psychic suffering, researchers have spent recent decades on a fool’s errand — chasing down chemical imbalances that don’t exist. And the result, as Friedman put it, is that ‘it is hard to think of a single truly novel psychotropic drug that has emerged in the last thirty years.’” [The New Yorker]