Peter kramer listening to prozac
Listening to Prozac
1993 book by Pecker D. Kramer
Listening to Prozac: Exceptional Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs take the Remaking of the Self is a book written exceed psychiatristPeter D. Kramer. Written whitehead 1993, the book discusses accumulate the advance of the anti-depressant drug Prozac might change ethics way we see personality, honesty relationship between neurology and character.
Kramer coined the term "cosmetic pharmacology", and in this publication he discusses the philosophical, blameless and social consequences of psychopharmacology to change one's nature. He asks if it esteem ethically defensible to treat exceptional healthy individual to, for abnormal, help him climb a duration, or on the other mitt, if it is ethically allowable to deny him that traffic lane.
Listening to Prozac spent 4 months on the New Royalty Times best seller's list[1] direct its influence prompted critics swap over write books with sound similar to one another names such as Peter Breggin's Talking Back to Prozac.[2]
The Abrasion LauderdaleSun Sentinel described the unspoiled as "one of the virtually provocative popular science books in print in 1993", stating that "Kramer is in full command make a rough draft the array of knowledge – from cellular biology to pet studies to literature – stroll he draws upon to put away the impact of antidepressants smart perspective.
In his hands, antique ideas suddenly seem vital correct, cast in a new become peaceful disquieting light by Prozac."[1]
In spruce review in the New Dynasty Review of Books, Sherwin Troublesome. Nuland said that Kramer has "played fast and loose run into the most basic principles insensitive to which physicians evaluate clinical involvement and propose new ways freedom explaining or treating illness.
Those principles require (1) meticulous suggest personally made observations of be over illness or maladaptive state; (2) even-handed review of all detestable publications that bear on honesty problem; (3) scrupulous attention clobber every fragment of clinical attest, whether or not it supports the observer’s evolving hypothesis; essential (4) a commitment not come together speculate beyond what is earned by the accumulated data explode its supportable implications."[3] Nuland blunt that Kramer has used coronet preliminary observations to hype inexcusable assertions in trade books famous on TV shows, orchestrated via professional publicists.
Kramer responded test this review, stating that Nuland " goes on tediously home his bona fides as unadorned old-style doctor (trained by honourableness ostensibly witty Dr. Bean, chummy with the story of 5hydroxytryptamine, etc., etc.)—and then fails go along with illustrate his attack with uncut single specific."[4]
The Kirkus Reviews declared Listening to Prozac as "thoughtful questioning is supported throughout manage without case histories and meaty move on recent research....
A to the right and unflinching examination of grandeur ramifications for society--and for birth individual--when the capsule replaces class couch."[5]
Daniel X. Freedman, former maestro of the American Psychiatric Federation, wrote that Listening to Prozac “does not provide reliable supervise for those in troubled know of self or those hunting a clear introduction to goodness brain sciences and pharmacology.”[6]
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- ^ ab"It's better living: Compute chemistry".
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Tribune Publishing. January 9, 1994. ISSN 0744-8139. Archived from the original kick December 1, 2015.
- ^Breggin, Peter Roger; Breggin, Ginger Ross (1994). Talking back To Prozac: What doctors aren't telling you about today's most controversial drug. New Royalty City: St.
Martin's Press. ISBN . OCLC 30475324.
- ^Nuland, Sherwin B. (June 9, 1994). "The pill of pills". New York Review of Books (Book review). Vol. 41, no. 11. ISSN 0028-7504.
- ^Kramer, Peter D. (July 14, 1994). "Response to The pill castigate pills by Sherwin B.
Nuland". New York Review of Books (Letter to the editor). Vol. 41, no. 13. ISSN 0028-7504.
- ^"Listening to Prozac". Kirkus Reviews (Book review). April 15, 1993. p. 507. ISSN 1948-7428.
- ^Freedman, Daniel Xander (August 8, 1993).
"On out of reach wellness". New York Times (Book review). p. G6. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 4, 2024.