Peter D Kramer
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THE END OF PERSONALITY?
Since it was introduce in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac has changed millions of troubled lives — but not without raising troubling questions of interest to anyone who has ever tried to improve his or her life.
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Since it was introduce in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac has changed millions of troubled lives — but not without raising troubling questions of interest to anyone who has ever tried to improve his or her life.
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"Do antidepressants actually work, or are they just glorified dummy pills? How can we tell one way or the other? In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer addresses the growing mistrust of antidepressants among the medical establishment and the broader public by taking the long view. He charts the history of the drugs' development and the research that tests their worth, from the Swiss psychiatrist Roland Kuhn's pioneering...
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Dr. Kramer presents an assessment of the science of mood disorder, suggesting that the pervasiveness of the illness has distorted our impression of what it is to be human. Overcoming it can change our sense of self, our tastes in art and love, and our idea of what it is to live a good life.
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Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions-sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories. Peter D. Kramer-acclaimed author, practicing psychiatrist, and a leading national authority...
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When Peter D. Kramer wrote about his work with psychiatric patients in books like Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?, Joyce Carol Oates said, "To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated." When Kramer switched to fiction, Publishers Weekly wrote, "The depth, quality, and ambition of Kramer's prose will surprise those expecting a superficial crossover effort." In his new novel, Death of the Great Man,...
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Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions-sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories. Peter D. Kramer-acclaimed author, practicing psychiatrist, and a leading national authority...
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InFact Books
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[2015]
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"In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness -- and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as 'mentally ill.' We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many -- maybe even most -- cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate stories reflect the writers' struggles to overcome -- both as professionals and as individuals, as current therapists and as former patients...