Sadness or Depression? [electronic resource] : International Perspectives on the Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning / edited by Jerome C. Wakefield, Steeves Demazeux.
Wakefield, Jerome C. editor.; Demazeux, Steeves. editor.
2016
QH331
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Title Sadness or Depression? [electronic resource] : International Perspectives on the Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning / edited by Jerome C. Wakefield, Steeves Demazeux.
Edition 1st ed. 2016.
ISBN 9789401774239 (electronic book)
9401774234 (electronic book)
9789401774215
9401774218
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7423-9
Published Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-94-017-7423-9 doi
Call Number QH331
Dewey Decimal Classification 570.1
Summary "The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions. Yet this gloomy picture masks a number of paradoxes concerning the diagnosis and cultural interpretation of depression that appear to challenge the claimed prevalence rates on which it is based. This book's essays by some of the world's leading researchers and scholars on depression explores these anomalies in detail from multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives, and in doing so reshapes the debate on the nature of depression that is currently under way in the US and abroad. At the book's core is the exploration from the multiple perspectives of a key dilemma: is the epidemic of depression real or is it just apparent? In particular, could it be the result of criteria laid down in the official American classification system of mental disorders, the DSM, interacting with cultural changes to reshape our view of melancholy, pathologizing what were formerly normal symptoms of grief or intense sadness? The debate over the DSM's conception of depression has an international relevance, with the WHO’s upcoming revisions to its International Classification of Diseases requiring coordination with the DSM. This collection of perspectives has an unprecedented international dimension, as scholars from Europe and around the world join US academics to explore a central and controversial element of contemporary psychiatric diagnosis -- and one that has enormous practical implications for the future of mental health care and how we view our emotions. The book's accessible essays will make it useful to scholars, practitioners, and students across a wide range of disciplines"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Wakefield, Jerome C. editor.
Demazeux, Steeves. editor.
Series History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9789401774215.
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Introduction: Depression, One and Many
The Current Status of the Diagnosis of Depression
The Continuum of Depressive States in the Population and the Differential Diagnosis Between "Normal" Sadness and Clinical Depression
Beyond Depression: Personal Equation from the Guilty to the Capable Individual
Depression as a Problem of Labor: Japanese Debates About Work, Stress, and a New Therapeutic Ethos
Darwinian Blues: Evolutionary Psychiatry and Depression
Is an Anatomy of Melancholia Possible? Brain Processes, Depression, and Mood Regulation
Loss, Bereavement, Mourning, and Melancholia: A Conceptual Sketch, in Defence of Some Psychoanalytic Views
Suffering, Meaning and Hope: Shifting the Focus from Depression in Primary Care
An Insider View on the Making of the First French National Information Campaign About Depression
Extrapolation from Animal Model of Depressive Disorders: What's Lost in Translation?
Psychiatry's Continuing Expansion of Depressive Disorder.

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