Counterpoint of real world application

• Although antidepressant drugs are successful for many patients they don’t work for everyone
• Although antidepressant drugs are successful for many patients they don’t work for everyone
• For instance, a recent study by Andrea Cipriani et Al (2018) compared 21 antidepressant drugs and found wide variations in their effectiveness
• Although most most of the drugs were more effective than placebos in comparative trials, the researcher concluded that the effects Of antidepressants in general were mainly modest
• This challenges the value of the biological approach because it suggests that brain chemistry alone may not account for all cases, for example depression