The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder - Couverture souple

Horwitz, Allan V.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199921571 ISBN 13 : 9780199921577

Editeur : Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for depression in clinics and schools, and a push to diagnose depression early, on the basis of just a few symptoms, in order to prevent more severe conditions from developing.

In The Loss of Sadness, Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield argue that, while depressive disorder certainly exists and can be a devastating condition warranting medical attention, the apparent epidemic in fact reflects the way the psychiatric profession has understood and reclassified normal human sadnes

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, is Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on various aspects of the sociology of mental illness including The Social Control of Mental Illness, Creating Mental Illness, and, with Jerome C. Wakefield, All We Have to Fear (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He is the recipient of the Pearlin Award for lifetime Achievement in the Sociology of Mental Health from the American Sociological Association.

Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD, is University Professor and Professor of Social Work at New York University. His previous faculty appointments were at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. Holding doctorates in both Social Work and Philosophy, he has published many articles on the conceptual foundations of psychiatry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199921571
• ISBN 13: 9780199921577
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 287
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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