On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World

by S. Nassir Ghaemi

Lasting happiness comes not from chasing the American dream but from living an authentic life--which includes despair.

In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142140933X
• ISBN13: 9781421409337
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher