The Resource Against depression, Peter D. Kramer
Against depression, Peter D. Kramer
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The item Against depression, Peter D. Kramer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 353 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Viking, 2005
- Contents
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- What it is to us
- 1. The final memoir
- 2. Return
- 3. What if
- 4. Ambivalence
- 5. Altogether
- 6. Charm
- 7. More charm
- 8. Eros
- 9. Obvious confusion : three vignettes
- What it is
- 10. Altogether again
- 11. Getting there
- 12. Magnitude
- 13. Extent
- 14. Convergence
- 15. Resilience
- 16. Here and now
- What it will be
- 17. The end of melancholy
- 18. Art
- 19. The natural
- 20. Alienation
- 21. After depression
- Isbn
- 9780143036968
- Label
- Against depression
- Title
- Against depression
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter D. Kramer
- 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
- Cataloging source
- Z72
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kramer, Peter D
- Dewey number
- 616.85/27
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Depression, Mental
- Depression, Mental
- Depression, Mental
- Depression, Mental
- Label
- Against depression, Peter D. Kramer
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Viking, 2005
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-337) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- What it is to us -- 1. The final memoir -- 2. Return -- 3. What if -- 4. Ambivalence -- 5. Altogether -- 6. Charm -- 7. More charm -- 8. Eros -- 9. Obvious confusion : three vignettes -- What it is -- 10. Altogether again -- 11. Getting there -- 12. Magnitude -- 13. Extent -- 14. Convergence -- 15. Resilience -- 16. Here and now -- What it will be -- 17. The end of melancholy -- 18. Art -- 19. The natural -- 20. Alienation -- 21. After depression
- Control code
- 1066606
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 353 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143036968
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780143036968
- (OCoLC)71749567
- Label
- Against depression, Peter D. Kramer
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Viking, 2005
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-337) 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 -- 1. The final memoir -- 2. Return -- 3. What if -- 4. Ambivalence -- 5. Altogether -- 6. Charm -- 7. More charm -- 8. Eros -- 9. Obvious confusion : three vignettes -- What it is -- 10. Altogether again -- 11. Getting there -- 12. Magnitude -- 13. Extent -- 14. Convergence -- 15. Resilience -- 16. Here and now -- What it will be -- 17. The end of melancholy -- 18. Art -- 19. The natural -- 20. Alienation -- 21. After depression
- Control code
- 1066606
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 353 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143036968
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780143036968
- (OCoLC)71749567
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