Weariness of the Self : Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age.
Title:
Weariness of the Self : Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age.
Author:
Ehrenberg, Alain.
ISBN:
9780773577152
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (376 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword Allan Young -- Preface -- Introduction: The Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness -- PART ONE: A SICK SELF -- 1 The Birth of the Psychic Self -- 2 Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression -- 3 The Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology -- PART TWO: THE TWILIGHT OF NEUROSIS -- 4 The Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual -- 5 The Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood -- PART THREE: THE INADEQUATE INDIVIDUAL -- 6 The Depressive Breakdown -- 7 The Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality -- Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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