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  • Sigmund Freud

    Inventor of the Modern Mind

    Series series Eminent Lives
    "Kramer succeeds in reconciling the two Freuds—the inventor of the modern mind and the false saint—and that is a considerable achievement." — Washington PostReferred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death of the Great Man

    A Novel

    When Peter D. Kramer wrote about his work with psychiatric patients in books like Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?, Joyce Carol Oates said, “To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.” When Kramer switched to fiction, Publishers Weekly wrote, “The depth, quality, and ambition of Kramer’s prose will surprise those expecting a superficial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Against Depression

    "Deeply felt... [Kramer's] book is a polemic against a society that accepts depression as a fact of life." —O, The Oprah MagazineA profound look at depression by the author of The New York Times Bestseller, Listening to ProzacIn his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Listening to Prozac

    The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self

    The New York Times bestselling examination of the revolutionary antidepressant, with a new introduction and afterword reflecting on Prozac’s legacy and the latest medical research“Peter Kramer is an analyst of exceptional sensitivity and insight. To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked, enthralled, illuminated.” —Joyce Carol OatesWhen antidepressants like Prozac first became ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Should You Leave?

    In his phenomenal bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer explored the makeup of the modern self. Now, in his superbly written new book, he focuses his intelligent, compassionate eye on the complexities of partnerships and why intimacy is so difficult for us. With the art of a novelist and the skill of a brilliant psychiatrist, Kramer addresses advice seekers struggling with such complex ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Spectacular Happiness

    A Novel

    In his bestselling Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer asked how much happiness we have a right to expect, and how quickly we should demand it. In Should You Leave? he questioned whether trading up has replaced loyalty in intimate relationships. Critics have praised his intellect and writing, comparing him to Roth and Updike, and have anticipated his turn to fiction.Now Kramer has made that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Better Than Well

    American Medicine Meets the American Dream

    by Carl Elliott ...
    "Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."—American ScientistAmericans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ordinarily Well

    The Case for Antidepressants

    "Ambitious, persuasive, and important . . . [Kramer] doesn't just make a case for antidepressants. He makes a case for psychiatry itself." —Jonathan Rosen, The AtlanticDo antidepressants work, or are they glorified placebos?In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Listening to Prozac

    Narrated by Peter D. Kramer ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 32 min

    THE END OF PERSONALITY?Since it was introduce in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac has changed millions of troubled lives -- but not without raising troubling questions of interest to anyone who has ever tried to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    On Becoming a Person

    A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

    Narrated by Joe Hempel ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 19 min

    The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of "client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten.With a new introduction by Peter Kramer, this landmark book is a classic in its field ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Freud

    Inventor of the Modern Mind

    Narrated by William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Sigmund Freud’s life bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his reputation and influence have endured, even intensified, in the twenty-first. Often referred to as “the father of psychoanalysis,” Freud did, in fact, conceive of many of its defining characteristics: he was the original advocate of the “talking cure,” and discovered--or, some argue, invented--the human unconscious.Kramer ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Against Depression

    Narrated by Peter D. Kramer ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 12 min

    In his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now Kramer offers a frank and unflinching look at the condition those medications treat: depression. Definitively refuting our notions of "heroic melancholy," he walks readers through groundbreaking new research—studies that confirm ... Read more

    $17.99 USD