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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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A provocative volume that sets up the mood-altering Prozac as a tool to examine the growing--and often troubling--use of drugs in the treatment of psychological illness. Brown University professor Kramer (Moments of Engagement, 1989--not reviewed) is a practicing psychiatrist who uses traditional techniques of therapy but also prescribes Prozac and other psychopharmaceuticals for his patients when they seem appropriate. Thanks to exposure on TV talk shows, Prozac is associated in many people's minds with suicide and violence, but only in the last chapter here--an appendix, really--does the author argue directly against these charges. What he explores instead are the far-reaching implications of the generally positive changes in temperament triggered by Prozac and other drugs prescribed to relieve anxiety and depression, and what these medications have taught us about how character and temperament are shaped. Prozac relieves mild depression, for instance, by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain. Knowledge of that fact opens the door to further investigation of chemical pathways in the brain, individual variations in levels of serotonin and other neurotransmitters, and perhaps even to early diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders. But, as Kramer points out, it also opens the possibility of altering brain chemistry to order, perhaps transforming a shy, sensitive individual into a sociable, assertive personality--the kind that present society most values. Acquisition of such a temperament, in fact, is the effect that Prozac has on many of Kramer's patients. But what has been lost when sensitivity is replaced by assertiveness? What is the ``real'' personality? Such thoughtful questioning is supported throughout by case histories and meaty reports on recent research. Some of the material suggests that if Freud was wrong about the content of childhood trauma (the Oedipal attachments), he was not wrong about its far-reaching effects. A wise and unflinching examination of the ramifications for society--and for the individual--when the capsule replaces the couch. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Listen Well,
Von Melissa Hardie "mjh1963" (Potts Point, NSW Australia) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self: Revised Edition (Taschenbuch)
Self-help literature can sometimes be hard on the reader: it's not usually very well written, relying on the need of the reader for information and help rather than style to seduce its audience. If you read this book expecting to be eased through an account of the SSRIs, then you'll be disappointed. But if you are interested in what a deeply thoughtful therapist can offer in the way of a philosophical, literary, and pharmacological exploration of the SSRI drugs, you'll love this book. Kramer's writing is compelling: he leads us through a history of the development of anti-depressant medication via a series of case studies that open up his central enquiry: what our we doing to our "selves" when we medicate? Kramer's book is, on balance, very positive about the impact of newer anti-depressants on the lives of depressed people. He is, however, cautious about the implication of these medications in a larger social context: are we giving people drugs merely to make them more peppy, more likeable? Are there personality types that are so privileged in our culture that we are now prescribing to effect personality changes? What might it mean when a patient on medication feels more "like themselves" than they did before chemical intervention? Kramer poses these questions through a gentle expository prose which nonetheless lays out their implications in all their complexity. His use of literary analogies -- in particular, the work of Walker Percy -- will strike a chord for those whose find fiction sometimes the best vehicle in which to explore questions of human social interraction. Listening to Prozac does, I'd suggest, offer help. It also provides much food for thought. Anyone whose life has been touched by SSRI medications will be intrigued by this book, and find something in it that speaks to them. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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A Meticulous, Well-Documented Account of Prozac,
Von Mark Mandell (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self: Revised Edition (Taschenbuch)
This is easily one of the most informative books I have read on the topic of mind altering medication. I can now thoroughly appreciate the neurochemical basis for behavior. Not that I hadn't felt that way before; more that I can see just how relevant brain chemistry is in our understanding of behavior. Subsequently, it would only follow that attention has to be given to the viable role played by pharmacology in all this. As a psychiatrist, Peter Kramer is in a unique position to make that particular determination. But his gift for erudite expression(stemming from his literary background as undergraduate) makes the subject especially stimulating to my mind. Such an exhaustive account truly does the subject justice even at the risk of appearing needlessly convoluted at times. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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An essential read for anyone taking antidepressants,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self: Revised Edition (Taschenbuch)
This book is a must for anyone who is, has, or has considered taking antidepressants, or who wants a soup-to-nuts review of the development and current state of antidepressant drugs, along with probing, and sometimes disturbing, case studies of patients who perhaps benefitted from, but were certainly affected by, Prozac and other similar drugs. Well written, I re-read it from time to time to stay refreshed on this most thought-provoking of subjects.
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