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The loss of sadness : how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
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The loss of sadness : how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder

Author: Allan V Horwitz; Jerome C Wakefield
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Allan V Horwitz; Jerome C Wakefield
ISBN: 9780195313048 0195313046
OCLC Number: 71842724
Description: xiii, 287 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Robert L. Spitzer -- 1. The concept of depression -- 2. The anatomy of normal sadness -- 3. Sadness with and without cause : depression from ancient times through the nineteenth century -- 4. Depression in the twentieth century -- 5. Depression in the DSM-IV -- 6. Importing pathology into the community -- 7. The surveillance of sadness -- 8. The DSM and biological research about depression -- 9. The rise of antidepressant drug treatments -- 10. The failure of the social sciences to distinguish sadness from depressive disorder -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Responsibility: Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield.
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