{"product_id":"on-depression-9781421409337","title":"On Depression","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has seen great achievements arise from great suffering and feels that understanding depression can provide important insights into happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn informed, challenging, and readable approach to a vital subject. Despair is in the title, but readers will rejoice in the reading. Library Journal Ghaemi is a lucid and eminently reasonable writer. Zocalo Public Square [ On Depression] belongs in libraries serving graduate students of psychiatry, psychology, and, perhaps, philosophy. -- Melissa Nasea Watermark Clearly written, with mercifully short chapters for the uninitiated reader, Ghaemi's book elucidates how many of us already feel about the current construction of mood disorders, without having been able to articulate our misgivings. -- Alexander Langford British Journal of Psychiatry This is a fun and stimulating read for anyone interested in depression and other mood disorders. -- Helga Meier Metapsychology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Entrance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Lives of Quiet Desperation\u003cbr\u003e2. The Varieties of Depressive Experience\u003cbr\u003e3. Abnormal Happiness\u003cbr\u003e4. The Age of Prozac\u003cbr\u003e5. The Unknown Hippocrates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Pretenders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Postmodernism Debunked\u003cbr\u003e7. Pharmageddon?\u003cbr\u003e8. Creating Major Depressive Disorder\u003cbr\u003e9. The DSM Wars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Guides\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Viktor Frankl: Learning to Suffer\u003cbr\u003e11. Rollo May and Elvin Semrad: I Am, We Are\u003cbr\u003e12. Leston Havens: Holding Opposed Ideas at Once\u003cbr\u003e13. Paul Roazen: Being Honest about the Past\u003cbr\u003e14. Karl Jaspers: Keeping Faith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Exit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. The Banality of Normality\u003cbr\u003e16. Two O'clock in the Morning\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Listening to Despair: An Interview by Leston Havens\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529527206231,"sku":"9781421409337","price":28.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421409337.jpg?v=1731875963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-depression-9781421409337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}