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The age of melancholy : "major depression" and its social origins /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blazer, Dan G., II (Dan German), 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Subjects:
Depression, Mental > Social aspects.
Depression, Mental > History.
Social psychiatry > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The diagnosis of depression
  • Introduction
  • The birth and growth of major depression
  • The rise and fall of depression as a diagnosis
  • Social psychiatry
  • The birth and growth of social psychiatry
  • The retreat of social psychiatry
  • The frequency of depression and a lesson from war and society
  • Interpreting the burden of depression
  • A lesson from war syndromes
  • Things fall apart: society and depression in the 21st century
  • The revival of social psychiatry
  • A call for basic social science research in psychiatry
  • Emotion: a link between body and society
  • The problem with soma.