We’ve come a long way from Freud’s couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac
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Jean-Dominique Bauby: A TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT
If the 1995 stroke that paralyzed Jean-Dominique Bauby was cruelly premature, at least death had the courtesy to wait until the 45-year-old French journalist finished his last assignment. Less than 72 hours after readers and critics alike hailed as a triumph his memoir of living with locked-in syndrome–a state of virtually total paralysis that leaves the victim, in Bauby’s words, “like a mind in a jar”–the former editor in chief of French Elle magazine died.