The weariness of the self :: diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age /

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 depres...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Ehrenberg, Alain (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Translation of: La fatigue d'être soi.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxx, 345 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773577152
0773577157
9781282867604
1282867601
9780773578708
0773578706

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Volltext öffnen