Chemically Imbalanced
Joanna Moncrieff (Flint Books)

Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious 14-year-old” when she experienced “a period of what might have been called depression”. She didn’t seek treatment, however. “I didn’t want to take anything that would stop me reading my philosophy books.” Luckily, she changed schools, met “a lovely boyfriend” and was happy again. “I expect my resistance was coloured by my parents’ general stoicism,” she writes in her new book, Chemically Imbalanced: The making and unmaking of the serotonin myth.

Moncrieff cautions that “none of…