| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Publisher information |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental.
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Affective disorders.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Neurasthenia.
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Neurasthenia
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Affective disorders
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Depression, Mental
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Neurasthenia
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Stress (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197563304 |
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0197563309 |
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