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The Age of Melancholy - "Major Depression" and its Social Origin (Hardcover)
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The Age of Melancholy - "Major Depression" and its Social Origin (Hardcover)
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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. The Age of Melancholy asks why the
incidence of depression has 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. The biomedical model
of psychiatry that has dominated the field for the past
half-century has faced minimal scrutiny, due in part to the
apparent advances made in the treatment of mental health issues
during that time. But, Dr. to complement and complete the model,
and he points to two concurrent trends for support: during the same
50-year period that saw the death of social psychiatry, the rate of
occurrence and increasing medicalization of depression as a
secluded individual's issue have brought us to the Prozac era. In
making the case for the connection of these two trends (both the
products themselves of larger social and cultural movements), the
author proposes a return of a new, more mature social psychiatry,
to complete - not replace - the biomedical and clinical research
models in place today. This book is eminently readable, and should
appeal to a broader audience than the psychiatrists, clinicians,
and researchers who will make up the primary audience. While
replete with the standard mental health references, sound research,
and authored by a recognized and respected professional, the ease
of language and range of examples make this text accessible to a
lay reader. This book should have cross-over appeal in sociology as
well as social work and psychology.
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