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1 online resource (xxx, 345 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Note |
Translation of: La fatigue d'être soi. |
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. Birth of the Psychic Self -- 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression -- 3. Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology -- pt. 2. Twilight of Neurosis -- 4. Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual -- 5. Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood -- pt. 3. Inadequate Individual -- 6. Depressive Breakdown -- 7. Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality -- Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible. |
Summary |
Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more difficult than a simple diagnostic distinction between normal and pathological sadness - the one constant in the history of depression is its changing definition. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Depression, Mental -- History.
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Depression, Mental. |
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History. |
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Depression, Mental -- Social aspects.
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Depression, Mental -- Social aspects. |
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Social psychology.
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Social psychology. |
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Depression -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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History, 21st Century. |
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Psychology, Social -- history. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9786612867606 |
ISBN |
9780773577152 (electronic book) |
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0773577157 (electronic book) |
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1282867601 |
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9781282867604 |
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9780773536258 |
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0773536256 |
Standard No. |
9786612867606 |
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