{"product_id":"listening-to-prozac-isbn-9780140266719","title":"Listening to Prozac","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling examination of the revolutionary antidepressant, with a new introduction and afterword reflecting on Prozac’s legacy and the latest medical research \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Peter Kramer is an analyst of exceptional sensitivity and insight. To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.” —Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When antidepressants like Prozac first became available, Peter D. Kramer prescribed them, only to hear patients say that on medication, they felt different—less ill at ease, more like the person they had always imagined themselves to be. Referencing disciplines from cellular biology to animal ethology, Dr. Kramer worked to explain these reports. The result was \u003ci\u003eListening to Prozac\u003c\/i\u003e, a revolutionary book that offered new perspectives on antidepressants, mood disorders, and our understanding of the self—and that became an instant national and international bestseller.\u003cbr\u003e In this thirtieth anniversary edition, Dr. Kramer looks back at the influence of his groundbreaking book, traces progress in the relevant sciences, follows trends in the use and public understanding of antidepressants, and assesses potential breakthroughs in the treatment of depression. The new introduction and afterword reinforce and reinvigorate a book that the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called “originally insightful” and “intelligent and informative,” a window on a medicine that is “telling us new things about the chemistry of human character.”Introduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Makeover\u003cbr\u003e2. Compulsion\u003cbr\u003e3. Antidepressants\u003cbr\u003e4. Sensitivity\u003cbr\u003e5. Stress\u003cbr\u003e6. Risk\u003cbr\u003e7. Formes Frustes: Low Self-Esteem\u003cbr\u003e8. Formes Frustes: Inhibition of Pleasure, Sluggishness of Thought\u003cbr\u003e9. The Message in the Capsule\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Violence\u003cbr\u003eAfterword to the 1997 edition\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"A remarkable book with an enduring cultural and professional impact. As this 30th anniversary edition reveals, Kramer's observations remain a source of insight and are more relevant than ever.\" \u003cb\u003e—Awais Aftab, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Kramer is an analyst of exceptional sensitivity and insight. To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.”\u003cb\u003e —Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of the most important and provocative books on psychology I’ve seen in years…asks us to question all our assumptions about what the self is, what therapy has been and can be, and about the role of drugs in affecting behavior and personality.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e “Dr. Kramer seems to be writing about the therapeutic credos of our time. The result is entertaining, provocative . . . and often originally insightful.”\u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Kramer is a wonderful writer, and his readers will learn much about the new research on temperament and personality, biological theories of mood disorders, and the behind-the-scenes stories of how psychiatric drugs were discovered or invented.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e “[Kramer] has taken on in a lucid and informed manner, issues that many clinicians and academics have been unwilling to tackle….His book will be truly heuristic…it will generate agreement or disagreement but, most importantly, it will generate thought and discussion. This is what one hopes for, but too rarely gets, in the public discussion of science and medicine.”\u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Peter Kramer deals brilliantly with the complex issue of personality and questions whether a commonly used antidepressant can alter the very essence of a person’s character.” -\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e “Intelligent and informative.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e “Kramer presents a lucid and convincing demonstration that American psychiatry is not brain dead….It demonstrates that conceptual brilliance and innovative thinking are alive and well in our field today.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Kramer fruitfully examines many questions that are relevant to everyone in this post-Freudian age of medication.”-\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e “Debunks the hysteria about [Prozac], fanned by pop journalism and talk shows, and gives us instead a multifaceted exploration of what the drug can do, cannot, and perhaps should not do.”\u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eHouston Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"[A] thoughtful, elegantly written book.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A wise and unflinching examination of the ramifications for society—and for the individual—when the capsule replaces the touch.” -\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Tackles the complicated implications and assumptions of modern psychiatry.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \"Extremely well-written, easy to read, serious, erudite and highly stimulating…and important and essential edition to psychiatric literature. We are fortunate to have Peter Kramer, a teacher and writer par excellence.”\u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter D. Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight books, including \u003ci\u003eOrdinarily Well\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Depression\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels \u003ci\u003eSpectacular Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath of the Great Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and the national and international bestseller \u003ci\u003eListening to Prozac\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays, op-eds, and book reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Dr. Kramer hosted the public radio program The Infinite Mind and has appeared on the major broadcast news and talk shows, including Today, Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Fresh Air. For forty years, Dr. Kramer practiced psychiatry in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. He now writes full time.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Visit Dr. Kramer on the web: http:\/\/www.peterdkramer.com .With a New Introduction and Afterword for the 30th Anniversary","brand":"Penguin Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300233466085,"sku":"NP9780140266719","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140266719.jpg?v=1767731510","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/listening-to-prozac-isbn-9780140266719","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}