Against Depression (Abridged)

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 "heroic melancholy," he walks readers through groundbreaking new research-studies that confirm depression's status as a devastating disease and suggest pathways toward resilience. Thought-prov...