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Peter D. Kramer
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in New York City, New York, The United States
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September 2018
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Listening to Prozac
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1993
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29 editions
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Against Depression
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2005
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18 editions
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
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2016
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7 editions
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Should you Leave? A Psychiatrist explores Intimacy and Autonomy - and the Nature of Advice
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1997
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21 editions
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Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind
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2006
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22 editions
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Spectacular Happiness
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published
2001
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11 editions
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Death of the Great Man
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Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age
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1989
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8 editions
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Grown Up for Good
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驚異の脳内薬品―鬱に勝つ「超」特効薬 / Kyōi no nō nai yakuhin : utsu ni katsu chō tokkōyaku
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“Support has no direction. Our plan is to hold the patient - to strengthen the container - until the patient develops his own container-strengths or until the contents settle down. We do not know just how or when all this ought to happen. Worse we do not have a particularly cogent rationale for limiting our own actions...”
― Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age
― Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age
“In supportive work, the therapist cedes great control to the patient. It may seem otherwise. The therapist is setting limits, perhaps implicitly commenting on the patient's behavior or sense of self, and so forth, and on the surface it seems that the therapist is taking responsibility for the patient's progress. but all this activity leads nowhere except, if we succeed, to stability. In supportive therapy, change arises in a more or less miraculous way , through the patient's suddenly feeling secure enough to move in a certain direction, perhaps one unanticipated by the therapist. It is this pathless quality of supportive work - the degree of blind faith it requires of the therapist - that makes it most uncomfortable.”
― Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age
― Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age
“Before studying imipramine, [Donald] Klein had worked with drug addicts, and he noticed that addicts had distinct preferences. Those who favored morphine could generally be distinguished from those who favored cocaine or amphetamine. And though both types of drugs give a rush of pleasure, the eventual effects are different.
Opiates satiate an addict, at least while they remain effective. Cocaine and amphetamine do not satiate but, rather, excite further desire; stimulant addicts will tend to "go on a run" and rapidly use all the
drug at their disposal.
To Klein, these varieties of pharmacologic pleasure-seeking corresponded to varieties of ordinary enjoyment. Some pleasures, like eating a big meal or sexual orgasm, are satiating and do accord with
Freud's concept of excitation reduction. But others, like "foraging, hunting, searching, and socializing," or sexual foreplay, are excitatory. Klein labeled these two sorts of pleasure "consummatory" and"appetitive.”
― Listening to Prozac
Opiates satiate an addict, at least while they remain effective. Cocaine and amphetamine do not satiate but, rather, excite further desire; stimulant addicts will tend to "go on a run" and rapidly use all the
drug at their disposal.
To Klein, these varieties of pharmacologic pleasure-seeking corresponded to varieties of ordinary enjoyment. Some pleasures, like eating a big meal or sexual orgasm, are satiating and do accord with
Freud's concept of excitation reduction. But others, like "foraging, hunting, searching, and socializing," or sexual foreplay, are excitatory. Klein labeled these two sorts of pleasure "consummatory" and"appetitive.”
― Listening to Prozac
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