In summary: When Elizabeth Wurtzel’s life went well, she was happy. As Sigmund Freud said, two of the most important aspects of anyone’s life are love and work. When Elizabeth Wurtzel did well in these areas of her life, she was happy - and with no help from psychiatry. When her life went poorly, she was despondent or “depressed,” whether or not she was taking Prozac and lithium or other psychiatric drugs or undergoing other psychiatric “therapy.” Whether she realizes it or not, her 368 page memoir illustrates that her salvation, both before and after Prozac, came from living a life she enjoyed, not from any of psychiatry’s so-called therapies.