Suddenly she has alreadyīeen canonized as a 'cultural critic' in the ninth edition of Ranging from Mademoiselle to The New Yorker. (now in paperback), she wrote popular music reviews for magazines The basis of her youth, her depression, and the implicit claim that her Spreading depression settling over the nation's youth will feelĮlizabeth Wurtzel is a young writer who has launched a career on Likewise, one whoĮxpects, in the service of such an elaboration, an elucidation of a

The experience of Prozac will be disappointed. Who expects to find an elaboration of either the therapeutic process or Psychopharmaccuticals and 'the talking cure.' Still, a reader It does intervene in the controversy about the relative merits of

This memoir is not predominantly about the place of psychotherapy, yet A private memoir with publicĪmbitions, Prozac Nation is not able to avail itself of this advantage. That is, memoirs might be more honest about how their Speak from within a space that is intimate, interior, and often Space, whereas personal memoirs that engage the same question tend to Psychotherapy occur in a public and therefore directly politicized Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company,Ĭurrent journalistic and medical debates on the place of

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