Peter D. Kramer Quotes

• The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Energy, Different, Culture

  Peter D. Kramer (1994). “Listening to Prozac”, Sage

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• Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Suicide, Bipolar, Certificates

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• I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Divorce, Men, Age

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• When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Marriage, Dream, Pain

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• What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

  Peter D. Kramer

  Taken, Artist, What If

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