
'Against Depression' Urges Ending a Disease

Peter D. Kramer has also written Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?. Infinite Mind hide caption
Peter D. Kramer's new book is Against Depression. In it, the author of the bestseller Listening to Prozac puts forth an understanding of depression as a modern scourge.
Kramer argues that we should think of depression as a disease -- and it should be uncompromisingly treated as such. Peter D. Kramer is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Brown University. He also hosts the public radio program The Infinite Mind.
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