Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.

The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.