Listening to Prozac

Cover of Listening to Prozac

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self is a book written by psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer. Written in 1993, the book discusses how the advance of the anti-depressant drug Prozac might change the way we see personality, the relationship between neurology and personality.

Kramer coined the term "Cosmetic pharmacology", and in this book he discusses the philosophical, ethical and social consequences of using psychopharmacology to change one's personality. He asks if it is ethically defensible to treat a healthy individual to, for instance, help him climb a career, or on the other hand, if it is ethically defensible to deny him that possibility.

Publishing Information

• Hardcover Edition: (June 1993)
  • Publisher: Viking Press
  • ISBN 0-670-84183-8

• Paperback Edition: (June 1994)
  • Publisher: Penguin USA
  • ISBN 0-14-015940-1

See also

• Prozac
• Cosmetic pharmacology