{"product_id":"on-depression-drugs-diagnosis-and-despair-in-the-modern-world","title":"On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World","description":"Lasting happiness comes not from chasing the American dream but from living an authentic life―which includes despair.\nIn a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling sadness. On Depression asks readers to consider the benefits of despair and the foibles of an unexamined life.\nToo often depression as disease is mistreated or not treated at all. Ghaemi warns against the \"pretenders\" who confuse our understanding of depression―both those who deny disease and those who use psychiatric diagnosis \"pragmatically\" or unscientifically. But experiencing sadness, even depression, can also have benefits. Ghaemi asserts that we can create a \"narrative of ourselves such that we know and accept who we are,\" leading to a deeper, lasting level of contentment and a more satisfying personal and public life.\nDepression is complex, and we need guides to help us understand it, guides who comprehend it existentially as part of normal human experience and clinically as sometimes needing the right kind of treatment, including medications. Ghaemi discusses these guides in detail, thinkers like Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Karl Jaspers, and Leston Havens, among others.\nOn Depression combines examples from philosophy and the history of medicine with psychiatric principles informed by the author's clinical experience with people who struggle with mental illness. He has seen great achievements arise from great suffering and feels that understanding depression can provide important insights into happiness.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 142140933X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.142140933X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ghaemi, S. Nassir\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41449532194874,"sku":"DBV.142140933X.G","price":24.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/142140933X-0.jpg?v=1780892714","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/on-depression-drugs-diagnosis-and-despair-in-the-modern-world","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}