The age of melancholy "major depression" and its social origins
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 contempora...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798397506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The diagnosis of depression
- Introduction
- The birth and growth of major depression
- The rise and fall of depression as a reaction
- Social psychiatry
- The birth and growth of social psychiatry
- The retreat of social psychiatry
- The frequency of depression and a lesson from war and society
- Interpreting the burden of depression
- A lesson from war syndromes
- Things fall apart: society and depression in the 21st century
- The revival of social psychiatry
- A call for basic social science research in psychiatry
- Emotion: a link between body and society
- The problem with Soma.
