The loss of sadness
Subtitle: how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
By: Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
Contributors: Wakefield, Jerome C.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780199921577
Subjects: Psychiatry; Miscellanea; Mental Depression; Mental illness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Robert L. Spitzer -- 1. The concept of depression -- 2. The anatomy of normal sadness -- 3. Sadness with and without cause : depression from ancient times through the nineteenth century -- 4. Depression in the twentieth century -- 5. Depression in the DSM-IV -- 6. Importing pathology into the community -- 7. The surveillance of sadness -- 8. The DSM and biological research about depression -- 9. The rise of antidepressant drug treatments -- 10. The failure of the social sciences to distinguish sadness from depressive disorder -- 11. Conclusion.