The Case for Antidepressants

Harvard Book Store welcomes psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer, the bestselling author of Against Depression and Listening to Prozac, for a discussion of his latest book, Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants.

In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked with pioneers in psychopharmacology, Kramer combines moving accounts of his patients’ dilemmas with an eye-opening history of drug research to cast antidepressants in a new light.