On Depression Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World

Name: On Depression Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9781421409337

ISBN-10: 142140933X

ISBN-13: 9781421409337

Edition: 2013

Authors: S. Nassir Ghaemi

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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, a psychiatrist with a wide grasp of philosophy, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of anything 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—those who deny disease excessively for instance or those who use psychiatric diagnosis (the DSM system) "pragmatically" and unscientifically. But…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Entrance



Lives of Quiet Desperation



The Varieties of Depressive Experience



Abnormal Happiness



The Age of Prozac



The Unknown Hippocrates



Pretenders



Postmodernism Debunked



Pharmageddon?



Creating Major Depressive Disorder



The DSM Wars



Guides



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



Exit



The Banality of Normality



Two O'clock in the Morning


Acknowledgments


Appendix. Listening to Despair: An Interview by Leston Havens


Notes


Bibliography


Index