by Élisabeth Roudinesco · Livros do Brasil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723818536
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Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis—Freud's so-called talking cure—when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs. Roudinesco argues that the rush to treat symptoms is symptomatic of an antiseptic and depressive culture in which thought is reduced to the firing of neurons, while psychoanalysis testifies to human freedom and the power of language.
