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EBOOK From Melancholia to Prozac:A history of depression
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191633867
EAN: 66E94895EB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2012
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Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of        its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are        they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the        pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying        for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoanalysis or Cognitive Behavioural        Therapy?Here, Clark Lawlor argues that understanding the history of depression is        important to understanding its present conflicted status and definition. While it is        true that our modern understanding of the word 'depression' was formed in the late        nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the condition was originally known as        melancholia, and characterised by core symptoms of chronic causeless sadness and        fear. Beginning in the Classical period, and moving on to the present, Lawlor shows        bothcontinuities and discontinuities in the understanding of what we now call        depression, and in the way it has been represented in literature and art. Different        cultures defined and constructed melancholy and depression in ways sometimes so        different as to be almost unrecognisable.Even the present is still a dynamic        history, in the sense that the 'new' form of depression, defined in the 1980s and        treated by drugs like Prozac, is under attack by many theories that reject the        biomedical model and demand a more humanistic idea of depression - one that perhaps        returns us to a form of melancholy.

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