How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown / Edward Shorter.
How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown / Edward Shorter.
How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown / Edward Shorter.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Date
2013.
Call Numbers
G 2013/2594
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
x, 256 p. ; cm.
Contents
Nerves as a problem -- Rise of nervous illness -- Fatigue -- Anxiety -- Melancholia -- Nervous breakdown -- Paradigm shift -- Something wrong with the label -- Drugs -- Return of the two depressions -- Nerves redux.
Publication information
Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2013.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Depressive Disorder
- Affective Symptoms
- Stress, Psychological
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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...
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How everyone became depressed : the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown / Edward Shorter.
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General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2013/2594
Record Identifier
74VKZ2JEb5E3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKZ2JEb5E3
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ISBN
9780199948086 (alk. paper)
DDC
616.85/27
MMS ID
991018528209702626
