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

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 t...

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Main Author:	Shorter, Edward (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Depression, Mental. Affective disorders. Stress (Psychology) Neurasthenia. Neurasthenia Dépression. Troubles affectifs. Stress. Neurasthénie. Affective disorders Depression, Mental Electronic books.
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