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

• Autore: Shorter Edward
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.85/27
• Soggetto topico: Depression, Mental; Stress (Psychology)
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2013.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: How everyone became depressed
• ISBN: 0-19-997825-5; 0-19-756330-9; 0-19-994809-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807971003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.