Ordinarily Well

“Ambitious, persuasive, and important . . . [Kramer] doesn’t just make a case for antidepressants. He makes a case for psychiatry itself.” —Jonathan Rosen, The Atlantic

Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified placebos?

In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychothera...