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Prozac

by Ronald R. Fieve

Published 1994212 pagesISBN 978-0-3807-7718-1

Featured on the cover of "Newsweek" and "New York Magazine."..debated on television and radio, written about in daily newspapers, "Prozac has raised hopes and sparked controversies across the country. But how much do you "really" know about "Prozac, the alleged "miracle drug" that doctors worldwide have employed to help alleviate crippling clinical depression in their patients?The bestselling author of "Moodswing," Dr. Ronald R. Fieve is one of the nation's foremost experts on "Prozac and its uses. In a clear, concise and easy-to-use format, he provides detailed and authoritative answers to the most commonly asked questions about "Prozac...giving essential information to help make "informed" decisions on this complex, often confusing, prescription, and offering interpretation of the effects of "Prozac on personality as well as the dangers of prescribing "Prozac to "misdiagnosed" patients.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Mental Health, Philosophy. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Mental Health · Philosophy

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Measured pace

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

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ProzacRonald R. Fieve
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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA shorter read212 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1994
Primary categoryMental HealthAlso cataloged under Philosophy
ISBN-13
978-0-3807-7718-1
Language
English
Edition record
OL1188863M
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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Mental Health, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which ideas feel usable in your actual circumstances—not only persuasive on the page?
  2. Where does the author distinguish evidence, experience, and opinion?
  3. What would a small, humane experiment with one idea look like?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.