Depression is seen by doctors and medical researchers the world over as a real illness. The World ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Organization reckons it affects 120 million people and will soon rank number two in the global disease burden. But do we really think it is just a disease? Or do we still buy into the romantic idea that creativity is somehow linked to this species of suffering?
Peter Kramer takes an uncompromising line. He is a psychiatry professor who made his name with Listening to Prozac, a book that looked at depression, but also at the then-new notion of “tweaking” personality…
