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First published in 2011 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

 

Copyright © Nassir Ghaemi, 2011

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Home After Three
Months Away” from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and
Sheridan Lowell.

 

Excerpt from Aristotle’s Problemata from “The Paradox of Genius and Madness: Seneca and His
Influence” by Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark, Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Editorial
Complutense, Madrid, 1992).

 

Excerpt from On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Penguin Books). Copyright © Jack Kerouac, 1955, 1957.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

ISBN : 978-1-101-51759-8

1. Depressed person—Psychology. 2. Depression, Mental. 3. Leadership—
Psychological aspects. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Mentally Ill Persons—psychology. 2. Mood Disorders. 3. Leadership.
4. Temperament. WM 171]
RC537.G
303.3’4019—dc22

 

 

 

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