Listening to Prozac

Author: Peter D. Kramer
Edition: Revised
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0140266712

Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition

Since it was introduced in 1987, Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac?AA 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, psyc "Is It Peace or Is It Prozac?," asked Cheryl Wheeler on the funniest song of her fifth album, Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar. But a listen to the whole... Read medical textbooks online like Listening to Prozac here

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and

In debating the proper uses of the antidepressant drug, Prozac, a practicing psychiatrist explores what the personality-altering effects of such psychotherapeutic drugs reveal about intelligence and the nature of the self

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ut what is Prozac?AA 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, psyc