| Description |
xxx,345 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Allan Young -- Introduction. Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness -- Pt. 1. Sick Self -- 1. The Birth of the Psychic Self -- 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression -- 3. The Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology -- Pt. 2. The The Twilight of Neurosis -- 4. Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual -- 5. The Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood -- Pt. 3. 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. |
| Summary |
"How and why has depression become the dominant personal unhappiness of our time? Alain Ehrenberg presents a history of depression's growth throughout the twentieth century, revealing the ways in which social, cultural, and scientific factors from Freud to Prozac have radically changed how we think about mental illness." |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental -- Social aspects
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Depression, Mental -- History
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Social psychology
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| ISBN |
9780773546486 |
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