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The Age of Melancholy - "Major Depression" and its Social Origin (Paperback)
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The Age of Melancholy - "Major Depression" and its Social Origin (Paperback)
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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. 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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