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The Age of Melancholy: "Major Depression" and its Social Origin

The Age of Melancholy: "Major Depression" and its Social Origin

Blazer, Dan G.

Hardcover

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0415951887
ISBN13: 9780415951883
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 11 2005
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. Major Depression is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly? To find answers, Dr. Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental upheavals, and other external, group factors that have undergone significant change. In so doing, the author revives the tenets of social psychiatry, the process of looking at social trends, environmental factors, and correlations among groups in efforts to understand psychiatric disorders.

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