Listening to Prozac

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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 body and soul.

Kramer coined the term "cosmetic psychopharmacology", and in this book he discusses the philosophical, ethical and social consequences of using psychopharmacology to change your 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.