From Melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression
by:
Clark Lawlor (author)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780191633867
Publish date: February 23rd 2012
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
A new review has been posted to my blog, The Itinerant Librarian. Here is an excerpt: "If I have to rate it on stars, I would give it a 2.5 out of 5 mainly because it is not a terribly engaging book. It can be a bit dense at times, which slowed down the reading pace for me. Also, the book could ge...
The preface to this books starts with discussion of the depression of on of the most famously melancholy writers of his time, Samuel Johnson. This is an interesting look into the mind of someone who suffers from quite deep manic depression helping to contextualise the later narrative and understandi...
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