How everyone became depressed the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown
In this work, Edward Shorter, a professor of psychiatry & the history of medicine argues for a return to the old fashioned concept of nervous illness. These are, he writes, diseases of the entire body, not the mind, & as was recognized as early as the 1600s. Shorter traces the evolution of t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford, [England] ; New York, [New York] :
Oxford University Press
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798189806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Nerves as a problem
- Rise of nervous illness
- Fatigue
- Anxiety
- Melancholia
- Nervous breakdown
- Paradigm shift
- Something wrong with the label
- Drugs
- Return of the two depressions
- Nerves redux.
