Reinventing Depression
Subtitle: A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195165234
Subjects: History of medicine; Psychiatry; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Depression; History; Psychopathology - General; Medical / History; Family & General Practice; Psychiatry - General; 20th century; Depression, Mental; Great Britain; Primary care (Medicine); Treatment; United States
First sentence: Depression is a killer.
Description: "The authors show that although depressed patients' help-seeking behavior and primary care doctors' clinical approach have changed little over the past half century, the field of primary care medicine has changed dramatically. They describe how the specific diagnoses and treatments developed by psychiatrists in the past 50 years have often collided with the non-specific approaches that dominate primary care practice. In examining the research seeking to close the gap between psychiatry and primary care, Callahan and Berrios offer public health models to explain the ongoing societal burden of depression. By exploring the history of depression in primary care, they open a pathway for improvements in the care of people with depression, where primary care physicians should play a greater leadership role in the future."--Jacket.