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Lou Marinoff. Plato Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems. New York: Quill, 1999.
Socrates asserted, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Lou Marinoff, in Plato Not Prozac!, suggests philosophy as the examining instrument.
Marinoff, the president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association and a professor at the City College of New York, believes that insights from philosophy can help individuals to solve everyday problems. For example: Having a midlife crisis? Ecclesiastes advises, "To everything...