Understanding depression
Depression has been a scourge of mankind since the dawn of ages. Vivid images from historical and religious texts describe sufferers of the illness we now know as depression. An ""equal opportunity"" illness, it exempts no one based on race, sex, creed, religion, social status, o...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi
c2000.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
Colección: | Understanding health and sickness series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798495806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Is Depression?; 2. Who Gets Depressed?; 3. The Causes of Depression; 4. What Happens in the Brain; 5. Treatment; 6. Helping the Depressive; 7. Searching for a Cure; Appendices; Glossary; Index