02959nam 2200625 450 991079081870332120230803022747.00-19-997825-50-19-756330-90-19-994809-7(CKB)2550000001176826(StDuBDS)AH25000206(SSID)ssj0001038332(PQKBManifestationID)12488731(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001038332(PQKBWorkID)11048295(PQKB)11746412(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341523(Au-PeEL)EBL1113183(CaPaEBR)ebr10823111(CaONFJC)MIL558112(OCoLC)867049921(MiAaPQ)EBC1113183(EXLCZ)99255000000117682620140117d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrHow everyone became depressed the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown /Edward ShorterOxford, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Oxford University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (x, 256 pages) Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2013.0-19-994808-9 1-306-26861-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Nerves as a problem -- Rise of nervous illness -- Fatigue -- Anxiety -- Melancholia -- Nervous breakdown -- Paradigm shift -- Something wrong with the label -- Drugs -- Return of the two depressions -- Nerves redux.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.Oxford scholarship online.Depression, MentalStress (Psychology)Depression, Mental.Stress (Psychology)616.85/27Shorter Edward128248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790818703321How everyone became depressed3673123UNINA