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The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition
Penguin
September 1997
On Sale: September 1, 1997
448 pages
ISBN: 0140266712
EAN: 9780140266719
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Self-Help Health
Psychiatrist Peter Kramer's book Listening to Prozac
created a sensation when it was released in 1993, and it
remains the most fascinating look at the new generation of
antidepressants. Kramer found that the changes in brain
chemistry brought about by Prozac had a wide variety of
effects, often giving users greater feelings of self-worth
and confidence, less sensitivity to social rejection, and
even a greater willingness to take risks. He cites cases of
mildly depressed patients who took the drug and not only
felt better but underwent remarkable personality
transformations--which he (along with many of the book's
readers) found disconcerting, leading him to question
whether the medicated or unmedicated version was the
person's "real" self. Kramer has been criticized for
seeming to advocate Prozac over psychotherapy or as a way
of achieving personality changes not directly related to
the disease of depression, such as improving one's social
confidence or job performance. In fact, he makes no such
recommendations; he was simply the first popular writer to
suggest that these changes might occur. (He answers those
critics in the afterword to this 1997 edition.) For anyone
considering taking antidepressants or wanting a better
understanding of the effects these drugs are having on our
society, Listening to Prozac is a very important book.
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