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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Shorter, Edward
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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 the concept of 'nerves' & the 'nervous breakdown' in western medical thought. He points to a great paradigm shift in the first third of the 20th century that transferred behavioural disorders from neurology to psychiatry, spotlighting the mind, not the body. The catch-all term 'depression' now applies to virtually everything, 'a jumble of non-disease entities, created by political infighting within psychiatry, by competitive struggles in the pharmaceutical industry, and by the whimsy of the regulators.' Depression is a & very serious illness - it should not be diagnosed without regard to the rest of the body.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2013.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-997825-5
0-19-756330-9
0-19-994809-7
Schlagworte:
Depression, Mental.
Stress (Psychology)
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