The valorization of sadness: Alienation and the melancholic temperament

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 13-18

  Kramer, Peter D ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUOXETINE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DEPRESSION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL STRESS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FLUOXETINE; HEALTH; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034153912     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528307     Document Type: Article

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6. L. Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (New York: Viking, 1950), pp. 160-80.
7. P. D. Kramer, Introduction to On Becoming a Person, by C. Rogers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995).
8. See ref. 2, Elliott, "Tyranny of Happiness," p. 183.
9. F. Kafka, letter to Oskar Polluck, 27 January 1904.
10. M. Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
11. B. Pascal, quoted in H. Ferguson, Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity: Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 25.
12. See ref. 7, Ferguson, Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity, p. 32.
13. See ref. 1, Kramer, Listening to Prozac, p. 297,
14. P. D. Kramer, "Stage View: What Ivanov Needs Is an Antidepressant," New York Times, 21 December 1997.