Depression in Japan : Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress /

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Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kitanaka, Junko, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychiatric Disorders, Individual.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy.
Depression, Mental > Treatment.
Patient compliance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SELF-HELP > Mood Disorders.
SELF-HELP > Depression.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Depression.
Patients > Cooperation.
Depression > Traitement > Japon.
Workload > psychology
Suicide > psychology
Psychiatry > trends
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Depressive Disorder > therapy
Depressive Disorder > psychology
Psychotherapy > Japan.
Depression, Mental > Treatment > Japan.
Japan.
Japan
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : local forces of medicalization
  • Reading emotions in the body : the premodern language of depression
  • The expansion of psychiatry into everyday life
  • Pathology of overwork or personality weakness? : the rise of neurasthenia in early-twentieth-century Japan
  • Socializing the "biological" in depression : Japanese psychiatric debates about typus melancholicus
  • Containing reflexivity : the interdiction against psychotherapy for depression
  • Diagnosing suicides of resolve
  • The gendering of depression and the selective recognition of pain
  • Advancing a social cause through psychiatry : the case of overwork suicide
  • The emergent psychiatric science of work : rethinking the biological and the social
  • The future of depression : beyond psychopharmaceuticals.

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