The age of melancholy : "major depression" and its social origins /

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"In The Age of Melancholy, noted psychiatrist and author Dan Blazer ponders why - if our biological makeup has not fundamentally changed in the last half-century - we are suddenly depressed on an epidemic scale? He does not have to look far to find answers in the breakneck pace of 21st century...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blazer, Dan G., II (Dan German), 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Temas:
Depression, Mental > Social aspects.
Depression, Mental > History.
Social psychiatry > History.
Depressive Disorder
Depressive Disorder > history
Psychology, Social > history
Dépression > Aspect social.
Dépression > Histoire.
Psychiatrie sociale > Histoire.
SELF-HELP > Depression.
Depression, Mental
Depression, Mental > Social aspects
Social psychiatry
Depression
Depressies (psychiatrie)
Melancholie.
Sociale aspecten.
Electronic books.
Informational works
History
Informational works.
Documents d'information.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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