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Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer

Listening to Prozac

A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self: Revis ed Edition

By Peter D. Kramer

By Peter D. Kramer

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Category: Psychology

Paperback $18.00

Sep 01, 1997 | ISBN 9780140266719

Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer
Paperback $18.00
Sep 01, 1997 | ISBN 9780140266719

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About Listening to Prozac

Since it was introduced in 1987, Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? A medication or a mental steroid? A cure for depression, or a drug that changes personality? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, does Prozac work on character rather than illness? Are we using it cosmetically, to make people more attractive, more energetic, more socially acceptable? And what does it tell us about the nature of character and the mutability of self? With the addition of an afterword that gives us an up-to-date report on Prozac in America today, including his personal observations, reactions to his critics, and the latest scientific research, psychiatrist Peter Kramer reinforces what The New York Times calls ‘an intelligent and informative book…which tells us new things about the chemistry of human character.’

Dr. Kramer was recently asked to guest host The Infinite Mind, a weekly public radio show focusing on the art and science of the human mind and spirit, behavior, and mental health. Listen to the show now.

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About Peter D. Kramer

Peter D. Kramer, MD, is “possibly the best-known psychiatrist in America,” as The New York Times put it. Peter Kramer received his MD from Harvard and is the bestselling author of Listening to Prozac, Should You Leave?, Spectacular Happiness, Moments of Engagement, and Against Depression. In 2004,… More about Peter D. Kramer

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Category: Psychology

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Penguin Books
Sep 01, 1997 | 448 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780140266719

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Table Of Contents

Introduction
1. Makeover
2. Compulsion
3. Antidepressants
4. Sensitivity
5. Stress
6. Risk
7. Formes Frustes: Low Self-Esteem
8. Formes Frustes: Inhibition of Pleasure, Sluggishness of Thought
9. The Message in the Capsule
Appendix: Violence
Afterword to the 1997 edition
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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