Peter D. Kramer Quotes

#1. Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like

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#2. I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

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#3. When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.

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#4. Swimming, Freud favors the breaststroke, to keep his beard dry.

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#5. What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

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#6. Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

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#7. When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

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#8. Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

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#9. The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

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