Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who despair at what we lose and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
Written by a person with depression, the book traces the manifestations and history of not only the author's own experiences with depression but also of depression in different cultures, classes, etc., supplemented by case histories.
- Physical trauma is among the primary triggers for psychiatric trauma, that to cure one in such a way that you generate the other is an act of medical stupidity.
- Psychiatry has gone from being brainless to being mindless.
- If you think that you are smarter than your doctor, you are probably right: a degree in psychiatry or psychology is no guarantee of genius.