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A practicing doctor's views on psychiatry and contemporary culture.

Suicide Lite

This morning’s Slate carries my review of David Lodge’s latest novel, Deaf Sentence. As the book opens, an aging male scholar is looking down the blouse of a comely co-ed who has proposed a thesis on the linguistic properties of suicide notes . . . Read More

The things i could think

I always keep a dictionary handy when reading you and this review is no exception. Do you think we could swap brains one weekend?

return ?

I'll give it back i promise... i think!

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Peter D. Kramer is a psychiatrist and author. His books include Against Depression and Listening to Prozac.

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