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Autore: |
Horwitz Allan V
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Titolo: |
The loss of sadness : how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder / / Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.89 |
Soggetto topico: | Psychiatry |
Depression, Mental | |
Mental illness | |
Altri autori: |
WakefieldJerome C
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The loss of sadness ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-773602-5 |
0-19-988606-7 | |
1-281-16376-7 | |
9786611163761 | |
0-19-804269-8 | |
1-4294-9171-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819290203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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