Author: George William BrownPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029048907
Category : Depression in women
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Social Origins of Depression
Author: George William BrownPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029048907
Category : Depression in women
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Age of Melancholy
Author: Dan G. BlazerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135433070
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly? To find answers, Dr. Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental upheavals, and other external, group factors that have undergone significant change. In so doing, the author revives the tenets of social psychiatry, the process of looking at social trends, environmental factors, and correlations among groups in efforts to understand psychiatric disorders.
Social Origins of Depression
Author: George William BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415045261
Category : Depression in women
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1978 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Social Origins of Depression
Author: George W. BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135645035
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1978 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Social Origins of Distress and Disease
Author: Arthur KleinmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300041330
Category : Depression, Mental
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Social origins of depression
Author: George William BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depression, Mental
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Angst
Author: Jeffrey P. KahnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199796440
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Why do so many people suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous angst? Some twenty percent of us are afflicted with common Anxiety and Depressive disorders. That's not just nervous or scared or sad - that is painful dysfunction without obvious benefit. A new theoretical synthesis suggests that while animals share a set of evolved social instincts, we humans experience commonplace Anxiety and Depressive disorders when we use our reason to defy that biology.
The Empire of Depression
Author: Jonathan SadowskyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509531661
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren't sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth century, even as European empires were crumbling, new Western clinical models and treatments for mental health spread across the world. In so doing, "depression" began to displace older ideas like "melancholia," the Japanese "utsushô," or the Punjabi "sinking heart" syndrome. Award-winning historian Jonathan Sadowsky tells this global story, chronicling the path-breaking work of psychiatrists and pharmacists, and the intimate sufferings of patients. Revealing the continuity of human distress across time and place, he shows us how different cultures have experienced intense mental anguish, and how they have tried to alleviate it. He reaches an unflinching conclusion: the devastating effects of depression are real. A number of treatments do reduce suffering, but a permanent cure remains elusive. Throughout the history of depression, there have been overzealous promoters of particular approaches, but history shows us that there is no single way to get better that works for everyone. Like successful psychotherapy, history can liberate us from the negative patterns of the past.
The Social and Interpersonal Origins of Depression Today
Author: Jeremy ClarkePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032839295
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Clarke, Cundy and Yakeley have brought together a group of researchers and experts in this collection who draw attention to neglected social and interpersonal origins of depression, pointing us to more effective approaches and alternatives.
Weariness of the Self
Author: Alain EhrenbergPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577157
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic distinction between normal and pathological sadness - the one constant in the history of depression is its changing definition. Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values. The first book to offer both a global sociological view of contemporary depression and a detailed description of psychiatric reasoning and its transformation - from the invention of electroshock therapy to mass consumption of Prozac - The Weariness of the Self offers a compelling exploration of depression as social fact.