The loss of sadness : how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder

The loss of sadness how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder

'The Loss of Sadness' argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, as many claim, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Horwitz, Allan V. (-)
Otros Autores: Wakefield, Jerome C.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2007.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Oxford scholarship online.
Materias:
Psychiatry > Miscellanea.
Depression, Mental > Miscellanea.
Mental illness > Miscellanea.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798401706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Robert L. Spitzer
  • 1. The concept of depression
  • 2. The anatomy of normal sadness
  • 3. Sadness with and without cause : depression from ancient times through the nineteenth century
  • 4. Depression in the twentieth century
  • 5. Depression in the DSM-IV
  • 6. Importing pathology into the community
  • 7. The surveillance of sadness
  • 8. The DSM and biological research about depression
  • 9. The rise of antidepressant drug treatments
  • 10. The failure of the social sciences to distinguish sadness from depressive disorder
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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