Introduction
1. Makeover
2. Compulsion
3. Antidepressants
4. Sensitivity
5. Stress
6. Risk
7. Formes Frustes: Low Self-Esteem
8. Formes Frustes: Inhibition of Pleasure, Sluggishness of
Thought
9. The Message in the Capsule
Appendix: Violence
Afterword to the 1997 edition
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Peter D. Kramer is the author of eight books, including
Ordinarily Well, Against Depression, the novels Spectacular
Happiness and Death of the Great Man, and the national and
international bestseller Listening to Prozac. His essays, op-eds,
and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Dr. Kramer hosted the
public radio program The Infinite Mind and has appeared on the
major broadcast news and talk shows, including Today, Good Morning
America, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Fresh Air. For forty years,
Dr. Kramer practiced psychiatry in Providence, Rhode Island, where
he is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown
University. He now writes full time.
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