The loss of sadness : how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder / Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horwitz, Allan V., author.

Wakefield, Jerome C., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Psychiatry--Miscellanea.

Psychiatry.

Depression, Mental--Miscellanea.

Depression, Mental.

Mental illness--Miscellanea.

Mental illness.

Depression.

Depressive Disorder.

Medical Subjects:

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Depression.

Depressive Disorder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Loss of Sadness' argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, as many claim, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980.

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.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773602-5

0-19-988606-7

1-281-16376-7

9786611163761

0-19-804269-8

1-4294-9171-X

OCLC:

476245654