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The weariness of the self : diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age /
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 depres...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Translation of: La fatigue d'être soi. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxx, 345 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773577152 0773577157 9781282867604 1282867601 9780773578708 0773578706 |