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How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown /

"In this provocative book, Edward Shorter describes how in the 19th century patients with anxiety, fatigue and unable to sleep and obsess about the whole thing were considered "nervous," and when they lost control it was a "nervous breakdown." Then psychiatry turned its back...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shorter, Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.