04423nam 2200769Ia 450 991078984460332120231206213933.00-7735-7870-61-282-86760-197866128676060-7735-7715-72027/heb33475(CKB)2670000000079173(OCoLC)759101530(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424050(SSID)ssj0000444128(PQKBManifestationID)11302819(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444128(PQKBWorkID)10468651(PQKB)10697606(CEL)433035(CaBNvSL)slc00225607(Au-PeEL)EBL3332078(CaPaEBR)ebr10559027(CaONFJC)MIL286760(OCoLC)923234758(dli)HEB33475(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000957(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dzn52b(MiAaPQ)EBC3332078(DE-B1597)657183(DE-B1597)9780773577152(MiAaPQ)EBC3271090(EXLCZ)99267000000007917320091118d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe weariness of the self[electronic resource] diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age /Alain EhrenbergMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20101 online resource (376 p.)Translation of: La fatigue d'être soi.0-7735-3625-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-331) and index.Foreword / Allan Young -- Introduction. Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness -- Pt. 1. Sick Self -- 1. Birth of the Psychic Self -- 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression -- 3. Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology -- Pt. 2. Twilight of Neurosis -- 4. Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual -- 5. Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood -- Pt. 3. Inadequate Individual -- 6. Depressive Breakdown -- 7. Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality -- Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible.Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic distinction between normal and pathological sadness - the one constant in the history of depression is its changing definition. Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values. The first book to offer both a global sociological view of contemporary depression and a detailed description of psychiatric reasoning and its transformation - from the invention of electroshock therapy to mass consumption of Prozac - The Weariness of the Self offers a compelling exploration of depression as social fact.Diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary ageDepression, MentalHistoryDepression, MentalSocial aspectsSocial psychiatrySocial psychologyDepression, MentalHistory.Depression, MentalSocial aspects.Social psychiatry.Social psychology.616.85/27Ehrenberg Alain241908MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789844603321The weariness of the self3853514UNINA$26.2201/04/2019Psych