The loss of sadness : how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder / / Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819290203321
• Autore: Horwitz Allan V
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-773602-5; 0-19-988606-7; 1-281-16376-7; 9786611163761; 0-19-804269-8; 1-4294-9171-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Altri autori (Persone): WakefieldJerome C
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetti: Psychiatry; Depression, Mental; Mental illness
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2007.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / Robert L. Spitzer -- ; 1. The concept of depression -- ; 2. The anatomy of normal sadness -- ; 3. Sadness with and without cause : depression from ancient times through the nineteenth century -- ; 4. Depression in the twentieth century -- ; 5. Depression in the DSM-IV -- ; 6. Importing pathology into the community -- ; 7. The surveillance of sadness -- ; 8. The DSM and biological research about depression -- ; 9. The rise of antidepressant drug treatments -- ; 10. The failure of the social sciences to distinguish sadness from depressive disorder -- ; 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'The Loss of Sadness' argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, as many claim, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980.