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On depression : drugs, diagnosis, and despair in the modern world / Nassir Ghaemi.
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Ghaemi, S. Nassir
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English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
©2013
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215 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RC537 .G43 2013
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Depression, Mental
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Antidepressants
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Existentialism
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"In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling sadness. On Depression asks readers to consider the benefits of despair and the foibles of an unexamined life. Too often depression as disease is mistreated or not treated at all. Ghaemi warns against the "pretenders" who confuse our understanding of depression--both those who deny disease and those who use psychiatric diagnosis "pragmatically" or unscientifically. But experiencing sadness, even depression, can also have benefits. Ghaemi asserts that we can create a "narrative of ourselves such that we know and accept who we are," leading to a deeper, lasting level of contentment and a more satisfying personal and public life. Depression is complex, and we need guides to help us understand it, guides who comprehend it existentially as part of normal human experience and clinically as sometimes needing the right kind of treatment, including medications. Ghaemi discusses these guides in detail, thinkers like Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Karl Jaspers, and Leston Havens, among others. On Depression combines examples from philosophy and the history of medicine with psychiatric principles informed by the author's clinical experience with people who struggle with mental illness. He has seen great achievements arise from great suffering and feels that understanding depression can provide important insights into happiness." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Lives of quiet desperation
The varieties of depressive experience
Abnormal happiness
The age of Prozac
The unknown Hippocrates
Postmodernism debunked
Pharmageddon?
Creating major depressive disorder
The DSM wars
Viktor Frankl : learning to suffer
Rollo May and Elvin Semrad : I am, we are
Leston havens : holding opposed ideas at once
Paul Roazen : being honest about the past
Karl Jaspers : keeping faith
The banality of mental health
Two o'clock in the morning.
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ISBN
9781421409337 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
142140933X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2012036893
OCLC
809886773
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On depression [electronic resource] : drugs, diagnosis, and despair in the modern world / Nassir Ghaemi.
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