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Against Depressionby Peter D. KramerISBN 0143036963 (0-14-303696-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Depression'Book summary:Written as an answer to the question, "What if van Gogh had been on anti-depressants," Against Depression manages to be more of an exploration than a polemic, regardless of its title. While author Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac) expresses a definite opinion--that disease of any sort should be treated as effectively as possible--he manages to express sympathy along with frustration about the recurring idea that soulful creativity often goes hand-in-hand with depression. Without ever being dismissive or particularly angry, his writing makes his point abundantly clear after the first chapter: The pervasive idea of depression serving a creative purpose is preposterous, as well as highly damaging.
While he draws from a number of recent studies on depression, the book is not meant to assist in the diagnosis or treatment of individuals, except in a very general sense. Instead, Kramer adds the findings of those studies into his thoughts on how patients modify medication doses for depression as they wouldn't for purely physical diseases, and looks into future possibilities of genetically modified stress hormone transmitters that could work to prevent a slide into chronic depression. In the arts, he examines the work of philosophers, painters and writers in relation to the reputation their personal lives have earned (critics and consumers alike believe that pain equals genius and lack of pain equals lack of depth). Adding Dineson, Bellow, Updike and Kierkegaard to the list headed by van Gogh, Kramer shows a variety of ways we live with the assumption that creative genius does not function without severe emotional strain.
While he does include a few stories from a patient to illustrate specific treatments, most of the book is slow and thoughtful, without ever being dry or pedantic. Useful to families or individuals who have encountered depression, this book offers excellent support for anyone--creative genius or otherwise--who struggle to define their talents as existing separately from their illness. Jill Lightner [via]
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The Art of Lovingby Erich Fromm, Peter D. KramerISBN 0061129739 (0-06-112973-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Loving'Book summary:The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love
Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding.
In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspectsnot only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.
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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dreamby Carl Elliott, Peter D. KramerISBN 039305201X (0-393-05201-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dreamby Carl Elliott, Peter D. KramerISBN 0393325652 (0-393-32565-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dream'Book summary:"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."American Scientist
Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance.
In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity? [via]More editions of Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dream:
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Listening to Prozacby Peter D. KramerISBN 0140266712 (0-14-026671-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listening to Prozac'Book summary: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. [via]
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Listening to Prozac/a Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Selfby Peter D. KramerISBN 0670841838 (0-670-84183-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Living With Prozac: And Other Seratonin-Reuptake Inhibitorsby Peter D. KramerISBN 0062512064 (0-06-251206-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living With Prozac: And Other Seratonin-Reuptake Inhibitors'Book summary:Used by more than 11 million people worldwide, Prozac's healing powers have been widely acclaimed. For those who are presently taking Prozac or who are considering it, this invaluable resource presents actual testimonies by patients who speak out about the benefits of this life-changing drug. [via]
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Living With Tricyclic Antidepressants: Personal Accounts of Life on Tofranilby Peter D. KramerISBN 0062512099 (0-06-251209-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Ageby Peter D. KramerISBN 0140237909 (0-14-023790-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age'Book summary:Through fascinating case histories and revealing encounters with patients, Dr. Kramer provides a compassionate, immensely eloquent view of how psychiatry really works. Written by the author of the national bestseller, Listening to Prozac.
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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotheraphyby Peter D. KramerISBN 039575531X (0-395-75531-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotheraphy'Book summary:The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. A new introduction by Peter Kramer sheds light on the significance of Dr. Rogers's work today. New discoveries in the field of psychopharmacology, especially that of the antidepressant Prozac, have spawned a quick-fix drug revolution that has obscured the psychotherapeutic relationship. As the pendulum slowly swings back toward an appreciation of the therapeutic encounter, Dr. Rogers's "client-centered therapy" becomes particularly timely and important.[via]More editions of On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotheraphy:
Should You Leave?by Peter D. KramerISBN 0140272798 (0-14-027279-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited - Should You Leave?: ISBN 0575066571 (0-575-06657-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor - Should You Leave?: ISBN 0684813432 (0-684-81343-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Should You Leave?: ISBN 0140272798 (0-14-027279-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Should You Leave? : Dilemmas of Intimacyby Peter D. KramerISBN 0753808463 (0-7538-0846-3)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Should You Leave? : Dilemmas of Intimacy'Book summary:Uniquely conceived and utterly refreshing, Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac) breaks the mold of most advice books with Should You Leave? Expect no authoritative voice retreating behind labels or manufactured jargon. Instead, in a series of fictive sessions with imaginary advisees, Kramer illlustrates complex problems; each one lets him give a different style of advice--from Freud's to Ann Lander's. The central question pushes the limits of traditional "silent therapy": can a direct, simple response to any problem of the heart be valuable?
Should You Leave? moves fluidly between discussions of psychological theory and imaginative flights, revealing both a wide body of knowledge and compassion. Kramer's questions, framed with sensitivity and irreverence, challenge our cultural fixation on autonomy and assertiveness. Given these, how can intimacy thrive? [via]
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Spectacular Happinessby Peter D. KramerISBN 0743223241 (0-7432-2324-1)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spectacular Happiness'Book summary:When is a bomb not a bomb? When it's a novel, of course. Peter D. Kramer's Spectacular Happiness is an intellectual blitzkrieg of a book, setting off depth charges of meaning long after its pages are closed. Kramer's protagonist, Chip Samuels, is the sort of man for whom the term mild-mannered seems to have been coined: college teacher, part-time carpenter, ambivalent anarchist, noncustodial father of a dearly loved son. When someone begins blowing up beachfront homes in his Cape Cod hometown, Samuels is the last person anyone should suspect--and yet the bombing campaign is his personal form of redemption, the work of an ex-radical finally coming into his own. Ironically, the resulting media frenzy turns him into the last thing any right-thinking radical would wish to become: a celebrity, a spokesperson, a rich man, an insider.
Samuels's story takes the shape of an extended journal written for his absentee son. It's a risky form for a novel, both introspective and deliberate, and for the first third of the book its discursive style can be a challenge to read. Kramer is the psychiatrist author of the bestselling Listening to Prozac, and his first novel often proceeds according to the rhythms of nonfiction: light on scene and dialogue, heavy on exposition and allusion. He seems never to have met a book he didn't like, and he's not at all afraid to wear his learning on his sleeve, repeatedly citing Marx, Robbe-Grillet, Sartre, Dickens, Thoreau, and Walter Benjamin. Fortunately, it's all in the service of character, and not quite as intimidating as it sounds.
Ultimately, Samuels has the temperament not of a terrorist but of an artist. He finds Marx inferior to Dickens as a thinker, and describes the bombings as a form of personal expression, reflecting his own quiet fastidiousness and keen sense of the absurd. But what are the moral implications of his actions? We're left to work that one out for ourselves, with not even a crazed manifesto to point us in the right direction: "I have never intended to impose political solutions on my neighbors. I have hoped to say at most, We know the dilemma we are in, the human dilemma." The human dilemma is, of course, the territory of both the psychiatrist and the novelist. And in his first foray into fiction, Kramer asks questions he can't answer and raises issues he won't resolve--a kind of "silent therapy" for a culture that could use some time on the couch. --Mary Park [via]
Why Men Don't Get Enough Sex and Women Don't Get Enough Loveby Peter D. KramerISBN 0671689770 (0-671-68977-0)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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