By turns emotionally powerful and tiresomely solipsistic, her book straddles the line between an absorbing self-portrait and a coy bid for public attention. The title is misleading, for Wurtzel skimps on sociological analysis and remains too self-involved to justify her contention that depression is endemic to her generation. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nationis a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Here she unsparingly details her therapists, hospitalizations, binges of sex and drug use and the paralyzing spells of depression which afflicted her in high school and as a Harvard undergraduate and culminated in a suicide attempt and ultimate diagnosis of atypical depression, a severe, episodic psychological disorder.

The onset of puberty, she recalls, also marked the onset of recurrent bouts of acute depression, sending her spiraling into episodes of catatonic despair, masochism and hysterical crying. After her parents’ acrimonious divorce, Wurtzel was raised by her mother on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Twenty-six-year-old Wurtzel, a former critic of popular music for New York and the New Yorker, recounts in this luridly intimate memoir the 10 years of chronic, debilitating depression that preceded her treatment with Prozac in 1990. So we’re ready to roll.”įor more information, visit. we’ve got all our t’s crossed and our i’s dotted now. “There’s somebody out there who sees the value of this,” she said. Rose said she is building up a local board, “so that’s a strong invitation to get involved.” She has some advisers on the team and would like it to grow. A major focus is inviting other women who have mother and family businesses and organizations to register on the online MoM directory. From May to July, she is running a $30 annual membership special to belong to the MoM Art Annex. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for. Over the summer, Rose will work on the next conference and edit the Journal of Mother Studies. Rose wants to find a space to be more “publicly facing” and is working on the internal structure. Locally, the nonprofit has had a presence at Localtopia and the University of South Florida. A look inside Martha Joy Rose's shed, which is converted into a mini art studio/den called the Feminist Playhouse at the Museum of Motherhood Art Annex in St.

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