The age of melancholy : "major depression" and its social origins /
By: Blazer, Dan G. (Dan German)
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Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: x, 251 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415951887; 9780415951883:.Subject(s): Depression, Mental -- Social aspects | Depression, Mental -- History | Social psychiatry -- HistoryDDC classification: 362.25 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- The diagnosis of depression -- Introduction -- The birth and growth of major depression -- The evolution of depression as a diagnosis -- 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.
'The Age of Melancholy' investigates the increase in the incidence of depression in our society during recent decades, exploring social foces, cultural & environmental upheavals & other external, group factors.