Abstract
Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Depression Journals (A Memoir)
Going Down
Swimming
The Return
Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method
Part II. A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay)
1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models
2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression
3. The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index.