Author: Lauren Slater
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: diary, prozac
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140263942
ISBN-13: 9780140263947
A dazzling and powerful account of a life profoundly altered by Prozac-- "surely among the best on the long-term effects of the drug" (The New York Times)In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater’s incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that he
Author: Don Ramon
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: leeches, prozac, viagra
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-03-29
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0595390889
ISBN-13: 9780595390885
The contents of this book originally appeared as columns in The Huntsville Item, in Huntsville, Texas. Here is a sampling of the comments the columns generated: "I laughed myself silly over Latin and German as applied to Sir Isaac Newton. Am sending a copy to my brother-in law..." J.S. "I laughed so loud my wife came in from the next room to see what was the matter." B.L. "That may be the funniest thing I’ve ever read." K.R. "I loved your limericks. I laughed till I cried." G.N. "Your column today was especially funny. I laughed so hard, I almost barfed!" N. W. "While Mary an
Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: tie, movie, nation, prozac
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-04-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1573229628
ISBN-13: 9781573229623
A memoir of sex, drugs, and depression indicts an overmedicated America as it chronicles the fortunes of a Harvard-educated child of divorce who lived in the fast lane as a music critic, always fighting her chronic depression. Tour.
Author: Edward Shorter
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: prozac, asylum, era, psychiatry, history
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-03-03
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0471245313
ISBN-13: 9780471245315
The history of madness and its treatment is a fascinating one. At one time, the mentally ill were diagnosed as demonically possessed; later, when mental illness became the province of psychoanalysts, those conditions that are actually physical in nature, such as schizophrenia or manic depression, went insufficiently treated, their sufferers consigned to asylums. In his book, A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter, a medical historian at the University of Toronto, presents a concise chronology of mental illness and its treatment. Shorter favors a biological understanding of these disorders, co
Author: Samuel H. Barondes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: drugs, psychiatric, generation, creating, prozac
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-06-16
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0195151305
ISBN-13: 9780195151305
Every day millions of people take psychiatric drugs. In Better Than Prozac Samuel Barondes considers the benefits and limitations of Prozac, Ritalin, Valium, Risperdal, and other widely used medications, and the ways that superior ones are being created. In tracing the early history of these drugs Barondes describes the accidental observations that led to their discovery, and their great impact on our view of mental illness. He goes on to show how their unexpected therapeutic effects were attributed to their influence on neurotransmitters that carry signals in the brain, and how this guided t
Author: David Herzberg
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: prozac, miltown, america, pills, happy
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-11-19
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801890306
ISBN-13: 9780801890307
Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addictive crutches. Where did this "blockbuster drug" phenomenon come from? What factors led to the mass acceptance of tranquilizers and antidepressants? And how has their widespread use affected American culture? David Herzberg addresses these questions by tracing the rise of psychiatric medicines, from Miltown in the 1950s to Valium in the 1970s to Prozac in the 1990s. The result is more than a story of doctors and patients. From bare-knuckled marketing
Author: Carl Elliott
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: social, medicine, studies, life, way, prozac
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-09-27
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0807855510
ISBN-13: 9780807855515
Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do these drugs treat? But sustained critical discussion among bioethicists and medical humanists has been surprisingly absent.The eleven essays in Prozac as a Way of Life provide the groundwork for a much-need
