On Depression : Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World /

"In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghaemi, S. Nassir (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Depression.
Depression
Existentialism.
Diagnostic errors.
Depression, Mental.
Antidepressants.
existentialism.
Antidepresseurs.
Existentialisme.
Erreurs de diagnostic.
Existentialism
Diagnostic Errors
Antidepressive Agents
Depressive Disorder > diagnosis
Depressive Disorder > drug therapy
Depression > psychology
Nonfiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lives of quiet desperation
  • The varieties of depressive experience
  • Abnormal happiness
  • The age of Prozac
  • The unknown Hippocrates
  • Postmodernism debunked
  • Pharmageddon?
  • Creating major depressive disorder
  • The DSM wars
  • Viktor Frankl : learning to suffer
  • Rollo May and Elvin Semrad : I am, we are
  • Leston havens : holding opposed ideas at once
  • Paul Roazen : being honest about the past
  • Karl Jaspers : keeping faith
  • The banality of mental health
  • Two o'clock in the morning.

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