THE END OF PERSONALITY?

Since it was expose in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to almost five million People in america. But what’s Prozac? Reported to turn timid people into public butterflies and to improve function performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac provides changed millions of troubled lives — but not without increasing troubling questions appealing to whoever has ever tried to improve his / her life.

Is usually Prozac a medicine, or a mental steroid…a cure for illness, about Hearing Prozac or a chemical agent for cosmetic character change? In many cases, Prozac can make people more appealing, enthusiastic and socially appropriate — whether they’re ‘ill’ or not really. But when a pill can may actually accomplish the task of countless therapy sessions, workshops and self-help books and tapes, possess we joined an age where pharmacological improvements could make our notions of character, personality and selfhood obsolete?

In the bestselling tradition of THE PERSON Who Mistook His Wife for His Hat, psychiatrist Peter Kramer reads his bestselling, critically acclaimed exploration of these and other issues that sparked a national debate. Sketching on both dramatic case research and the perceptions of a uniquely insightful thinker contemplating a ethnic crossroads, Hearing Prozac will permanently change the way you think about the individual condition.