Poets on Prozac : mental illness, treatment, and the creative process / edited by Richard M. Berlin.

Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.

ISBN: 9780801888397 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801888395 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Description: xiii, 181 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Artists Mental health Case studies.
Mental illness Treatment Case studies.
Psychotherapy Case studies.
Personality and creative ability.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Creative ability.
Art and mental illness.
Mental Disorders drug therapy Personal Narratives.
Mental Disorders psychology Personal Narratives.
Creativeness Personal Narratives.
Poetry Personal Narratives.

Contents: Dark gifts / Gwyneth Lewis -- The desire to think clearly / J.D. Smith -- A crab, an eggplant, a tree, a goldfish, a cow, an apple, a candle : a therapist / Denise Duhamel -- Perfecting the art of falling / Thomas Krampf -- My name is not Alice / Ren Powell -- My oldest voice / Jesse Millner -- How I learned to count to four and live with the ghosts of animals / Vanessa Haley -- The uses of depression : the way around is through / David Budbill -- In the middle of life's journey / Jack Coulehan -- Basic heart : depression and the ordinary / Renee Ashley -- Food for thought / Caterina Eppolit -- From bog to crystal / Barbara F. Lefcowitz -- In the country of motherhood / Martha Silano -- Down the tracks : Bruce Springsteen sang to me / Liza Porter -- Chemical Zen / Andrew Hudgins -- Psychopharmacology and its discontents / Chase Twichell.