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Lewis Wolpert defined depression as "malignant sadness".
If "Malignant Sadness" lacks this quality, "Prozac Backlash" suffers from too much of it.
For Mrs Brown, that meant Pearl, a source of ongoing, malignant sadness.
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression Lewis Wolpert (Faber, £7.99) Buy it at a discount at BOL This is probably the most important book published so far this year, in that it may save lives.
William Styron's Darkness Visible, Lewis Wolpert on his Malignant Sadness, Elizabeth Wurtzel's citizenship of Prozac Nation are just the stand-out titles in a crowded if somewhat subdued genre.
Wolpert's new introduction describes a bout that occurred after the first publication of Malignant Sadness : "When a friend urged me to read my own book I was not even amused".
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And sadness.
A malignant diagnosis.
But it was malignant.
It is malignant.
Is it sadness?
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