1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453521503321

Autore

Shorter Edward

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-19-756330-9

0-19-994809-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 256 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

616.85/27

Soggetti

Depression, Mental

Stress (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2013.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this work, Edward Shorter, a professor of psychiatry & the history of medicine argues for a return to the old fashioned concept of nervous illness. These are, he writes, diseases of the entire body, not the mind, & as was recognized as early as the 1600s. Shorter traces the evolution of the concept of 'nerves' & the 'nervous breakdown' in western medical thought. He points to a great paradigm shift in the first third of the 20th century that transferred behavioural disorders from neurology to psychiatry, spotlighting the mind, not the body. The catch-all term 'depression' now applies to virtually everything, 'a jumble of non-disease entities, created by political infighting within psychiatry, by competitive struggles in the pharmaceutical industry, and by the whimsy of the regulators.' Depression is a & very serious illness - it should not be diagnosed without regard to the rest of the body.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910746796103321

Autore

Romano, Luciano <1958-    >

Titolo

Napoli dentro / immagini Luciano Romano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Arte'm, stampa 2010

ISBN

978-88-569-0092-7

Descrizione fisica

160 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

DFT E55 ROML 01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Testo anche in inglese.