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Author Ehrenberg, Alain.

Title The weariness of the self : diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age / Alain Ehrenberg.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 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.
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Subject Depression, Mental -- History.
Depression, Mental.
History.
Depression, Mental -- Social aspects.
Depression, Mental -- Social aspects.
Social psychology.
Social psychology.
Depression -- history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
Psychology, Social -- history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9786612867606
ISBN 9780773577152 (electronic book)
0773577157 (electronic book)
1282867601
9781282867604
9780773536258
0773536256
Standard No. 9786612867606