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The Resource Against depression, Peter D. Kramer

Against depression, Peter D. Kramer

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A decade ago, with Listening to Prozac, Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now, he returns with a look at the condition those medications treat. Depression, linked in our culture to a long tradition of "heroic melancholy," is often regarded as ennobling--a source of soulfulness and creativity. Tracing this belief from Aristotle to the Romantics to Picasso, and to present-day memoirs of mood disorder, Kramer suggests that the pervasiveness of the illness has distorted our sense of what it is to be human. There is nothing heroic about depression, he argues, and he presents the latest scientific findings to support the fact that depression is a disease.--Publisher description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiv, 353 pages
Note
APPE gift.
Contents
  • What it is to us. The final memoir
  • Return
  • What if
  • Ambivalence
  • Altogether
  • Charm
  • More charm
  • Eros
  • Obvious confusion: three vignettes
  • What it is. Altogether again
  • Getting there
  • Magnitude
  • Extent
  • Convergence
  • Resilience
  • Here and now
  • What I will be. The end of melancholy
  • Art
  • The natural
  • Alienation
  • After depression
Isbn
9780670034055
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Against depression
Title
Against depression
Statement of responsibility
Peter D. Kramer
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A decade ago, with Listening to Prozac, Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now, he returns with a look at the condition those medications treat. Depression, linked in our culture to a long tradition of "heroic melancholy," is often regarded as ennobling--a source of soulfulness and creativity. Tracing this belief from Aristotle to the Romantics to Picasso, and to present-day memoirs of mood disorder, Kramer suggests that the pervasiveness of the illness has distorted our sense of what it is to be human. There is nothing heroic about depression, he argues, and he presents the latest scientific findings to support the fact that depression is a disease.--Publisher description
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Kramer, Peter D
Dewey number
616.85/27
Index
index present
LC call number
RC537
LC item number
.K725 2005
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2005 G-884
  • WM 171
NLM item number
K89a 2005
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Depression, Mental
  • Depression, Mental
  • Depressive Disorder
  • Attitude to Health
  • Depressive Disorder
  • Depression, Mental
  • Depression, Mental
  • Depressies (psychiatrie)
  • Psychotherapie
  • Depression, Mental
  • Depression, Mental.
Label
Against depression, Peter D. Kramer
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Publication
Note
APPE gift.
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
What it is to us. The final memoir -- Return -- What if -- Ambivalence -- Altogether -- Charm -- More charm -- Eros -- Obvious confusion: three vignettes -- What it is. Altogether again -- Getting there -- Magnitude -- Extent -- Convergence -- Resilience -- Here and now -- What I will be. The end of melancholy -- Art -- The natural -- Alienation -- After depression
Control code
ocm57010004
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xiv, 353 pages
Isbn
9780670034055
Lccn
2004061228
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o57010004
  • (OCoLC)57010004
Label
Against depression, Peter D. Kramer
Link
Publication
Note
APPE gift.
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
What it is to us. The final memoir -- Return -- What if -- Ambivalence -- Altogether -- Charm -- More charm -- Eros -- Obvious confusion: three vignettes -- What it is. Altogether again -- Getting there -- Magnitude -- Extent -- Convergence -- Resilience -- Here and now -- What I will be. The end of melancholy -- Art -- The natural -- Alienation -- After depression
Control code
ocm57010004
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xiv, 353 pages
Isbn
9780670034055
Lccn
2004061228
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o57010004
  • (OCoLC)57010004

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