| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 345 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Allan Young -- Introduction. Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness -- pt. 1. Sick Self -- 1. Birth of the Psychic Self -- 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression -- 3. Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology -- pt. 2. Twilight of Neurosis -- 4. Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual -- 5. Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood -- pt. 3. Inadequate Individual -- 6. Depressive Breakdown -- 7. Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality -- Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible |
| Summary |
Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic distinction between normal and pathological sadness - the one constant in the history of depression is its changing definition |
| Notes |
Translation of: La fatigue d'être soi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: La fatigue d'être soi |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental -- History
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Depression, Mental -- Social aspects
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Social psychology.
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Depression -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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Psychology, Social -- history
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Psychology, Social
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social psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Depression.
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SELF-HELP -- Depression.
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SELF-HELP -- Mood Disorders.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- History.
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Depression, Mental
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Depression, Mental -- Social aspects
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Social psychology
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Depression
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Gesellschaft
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Psychosoziale Belastung
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Depression -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Depression (psykiatri)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773577152 |
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0773577157 |
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9781282867604 |
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1282867601 |
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9780773578708 |
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0773578706 |
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