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

By: Shorter, Edward.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: x, 256 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780199948086 (alk. paper); 0199948089 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Depression, Mental | Stress (Psychology)DDC classification: 616.85/27
Contents:
Nerves as a problem -- The rise of nervous illness -- Fatigue -- Anxiety -- A different kind of nervous breakdown-- melancholia -- The nervous breakdown -- Paradigm shift -- Something wrong with the label -- Drugs -- The return of the two depressions (and an anxious postscript) -- Nerves redux -- Context.
Summary: Looks at the history, treatment and diagnosis of depression and urges that the diagnosis of depression be re-thought
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nerves as a problem -- The rise of nervous illness -- Fatigue -- Anxiety -- A different kind of nervous breakdown-- melancholia -- The nervous breakdown -- Paradigm shift -- Something wrong with the label -- Drugs -- The return of the two depressions (and an anxious postscript) -- Nerves redux -- Context.

Looks at the history, treatment and diagnosis of depression and urges that the diagnosis of depression be re-thought

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