How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown / Edward Shorter.
Shorter, Edward.
2013
RC537 .S5245 2013 (Mapit)
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Title How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown / Edward Shorter.
Author Shorter, Edward.
ISBN 9780199948086 (alk. paper)
0199948089 (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description x, 256 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number RC537 .S5245 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.85/27
Summary "In this provocative book, Edward Shorter describes how in the 19th century patients with anxiety, fatigue and unable to sleep and obsess about the whole thing were considered "nervous," and when they lost control it was a "nervous breakdown." Then psychiatry turned its back on the whole concept of nerves, and--first under the influence of Freud's psychoanalysis and then the influence of the pharmaceutical industry--the diagnosis of depression took center stage. The result has been a scientific disaster, leading to the misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment (with "antidepressants") of millions of patients. And with the new 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), the trend of inappropriate treatment is sure to continue. Urging that the diagnosis of depression be re-thought, this book turns a dramatic page in the understanding of psychiatric symptoms that are as common as the common cold. A gripping historical argument on psychiatric diagnosis and its flawed heritage and future."-- Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Nerves as a problem
The rise of nervous illness
Fatigue
Anxiety
A different kind of nervous breakdown
melancholia
The nervous breakdown
Paradigm shift
Something wrong with the label
Drugs
The return of the two depressions (and an anxious postscript)
Nerves redux
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