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100 1 $aKramer, Peter D.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85223173
245 10 $aAgainst depression /$cPeter D. Kramer.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2005.
300 $axiv, 353 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"Against Depression is an assessment of the science of mood disorder - a field that has taken leaps forward in the past decade. Walking the reader through the full range of new research, Kramer shows how depression endangers nerve cells, disrupts brain functioning, damages the heart and the blood vessels, alters personal perspective and judgment, and interferes with parenting and family life. As the evidence mounts, there is no denying the obvious - that depression now qualifies fully as a disease, one of the most devastating known to humankind. And yet, says Kramer, we do not approach depression as a disease, not in our daily thinking." "Depression, linked in our culture to a long tradition of "heroic melancholy," is often understood as ennobling - a source of creativity, integrity, insight, and even sensuality. Tracing these beliefs 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 impression of what it is to be human. He shows how a head-on look at depression as we now know it will change our sense of self, our tastes in art and in love, and our account of what it is to live a good life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDepression, Mental.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037053
650 0 $aDepression, Mental$xTreatment.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117513
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