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Against Depression
- Narrateur(s): Peter D. Kramer
- Durée: 6 h et 12 min
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Description
Depression, linked in our culture to a long tradition of "heroic melancholy", is often understood as ennobling, a source of soulfulness and creativity. Tracing this belief from Aristotle to the Romantics to Picasso, and to present-day memoirs of mood disorder, Kramer suggests that the pervasiveness of the illness has distorted our sense of what it is to be human. There is nothing heroic about depression, Kramer argues, and he presents the latest scientific findings to support the fact that depression is a disease, one that can have far-reaching health effects on its sufferers.
Frank and unflinching, Against Depression is a deeply felt, deeply moving book, grounded in time spent with the depressed. As his argument unfolds, Kramer becomes a crusader, the author of a compassionate polemic that is fiercely against depression and the devastation it causes. Like Listening to Prozac, Against Depression will offer hope to millions who suffer from depression, and radically alter the debate on its treatment.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"An eloquent, absorbing book." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Deeply felt... [Kramer's] book is a polemic against a society that accepts depression as a fact of life." (O, The Oprah Magazine)
"Kramer makes an eloquent case for considering depression a disease... Captivating, convincing and thorough." (San Francisco Chronicle)