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A passionate argument against our romantic acceptance of depression—from the internationally bestselling author of Listening to Prozac
In his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now Kramer offers a frank and unflinching look at the condition those medications treat: depression. Definitively refuting our notions of "h... More >>
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Depression means lost happiness and well-being which means lost productivity. Come on: depression is romantic. Read Russell David Harper’s BALD to see why.
Rating: 1 / 5
It is a very specialised book but but practical for the common people in a 70%
Rating: 3 / 5
While this book may help some people, an even better book is Dr. Carolyn Dean’s book The Miracle of Magnesium. Here is a quote from Dr. Dean’s book regarding magnesium in the treatment of depression: “With proper amounts of magnesium, nature makes sufficient serotonin and you experience emotional balance. But when stress depletes magnesium, a vicious cycle spins out of control and depression can occur. The body needs magnesium in order to release and bind adequate amounts of serotonin in the brain. The pharmaceutical industry has focused its research for the treatment of depression on serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac to capitalize on serotonin’s chemical effects instead of giving serotonin what it really needs — magnesium…Magnesium deficiency is a potential cause for every type of depression. All treatment protocols should begin with adequate doses of this valuable mineral.” If you are suffering from depression, I beg you to acquire and read Dr. Dean’s book and take supplemental magnesium daily as Dr. Dean recommends. You may find that this important nutrient is the solution you have been seeking.
Rating: 4 / 5
The message that there is significant risk in treating depression as a problem of deviant temperment rather than as the physiological threat it presents is well taken. It does not require 291 pages of text to convey these extensively documented facts which are generally known to those of us interested in these matters, if not in such detail.
The book lacked details of treatment protocols and outcomes.
The broad suggestion that mental illness is best treated with a combination of therapy and medication is like a disclaimer. The main benefit of therapy is to provide emotional support which encourages the adherence to the prescribed medication protocol. No mental illness has ever been cured with therapy. Also, there is little mention about alternative treatments or future treatments such as TMS. This book is not comprehensive.
Rating: 2 / 5
On page 265 Kramer writes:
“Percy’s position blurs distinctions we might want to make. It overstates the case only slightly to say that for Percy, there is no difference between treating epilepsy and treating alienation. Both are best approached via faith and revelation, not technology.”
Kramer could not be more wrong.
How could Kramer have read Percy’s nonfiction, as he claims he has (e-mail), and miss Percy’s use of the dyadic/triadic distinction? This fundamenal distinction is discussed by Percy throughout at least thirty years of writing, from “Naming and Being” to the Jefferson Lecture.
Could Percy have stated the case more clearly than he did in “Is a Theory of Man Possible?”? (p129 _Signposts in a Strange Land_):
“I can even visualize the hospital of the future in which the first signs the patient sees in the corridor do not read INTERNAL MEDICINE, SURGERY, OB-GYN, PSYCHIATRY UPSTAIRS, but rather two big signs just insde the door, one pointing left, one right (I won’t say which is which), but one reading DYADIC DISORDERS; the other, TRIADIC DISORDERS.”
To Percy, the distinction is so profound that he feels the very architecture of the hospitals of the future could be based upon it!
It is a shame that Kramer has broadly disseminated such a profound and fundamental misreading of Percy’s work.
Robert Eckert
Rating: 4 / 5