The author makes a good point about re-examining our approach to treating mental illness. I think the viewpoint that &quot;Big Pharma&quot; has psychiatrists in their hands is a bit too conspiracy-ist for me. What&#x27;s really happening is mental healthcare is being excessively quantized and dehumanized. We&#x27;re too concerned with the symptoms and we have studies that lump a variety of people under the ridiculously general label: &#x27;depression&#x27;.<p>We&#x27;re going too fast, the brain and human spirit is hopelessly complex, and it takes a holistic, humanistic treatment that doesn&#x27;t reduce the patient to a set of symptoms to make a change. A book I recommend concerning this is &quot;The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat&quot; by neurologist Oliver Sacks.