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Speaking of Sadness - Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition (Paperback, Updated And Expanded Edition)
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Speaking of Sadness - Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition (Paperback, Updated And Expanded Edition)
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Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal
insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression
into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate
interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant,
disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, Karp's interviews cause us
to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with
extraordinary and debilitating pain. We hear what depression feels
like, what it means to receive an "official" clinical diagnosis,
and what depressed persons think of the battalion of mental health
experts-doctors, nurses, social workers, sociologists,
psychologists, and therapists-employed to help them. Ranging in age
from their early twenties to their mid-sixties, the people Karp
profiles reflect on their working lives, career aspirations, and
intimate relationships, and confide strategies for overcoming
paralyzing episodes of hopelessness. Throughout, Karp probes the
myriad ways society contributes to widespread alienation and
emotional exhaustion. In a new and extensive introduction since the
original publication of Speaking of Sadness twenty years ago, Karp
evaluates the state of and social movements for the depression
experience. He traces his personal depression journey along with
the reception of his readers since the book's original publication.
In addition, he offers a clear perspective on the consequences of
wholesale medicalization permeating cultural treatment of
depression, and calls towards a movement to listen to and to voice
the experiences of the marginalized. Speaking of Sadness remains
distinctive in its dedication to recounting stories and discovering
clear patterns in them. Karp pierces through the terrifying
isolation of depression to uncover the connections linking the
depressed as they undertake their personal journeys through this
very private hell. This book will bring new understanding to
professionals seeking to see the world as their clients do, and
provide vivid insights and renewed empathy to anyone who cares for
someone living with the cruel unpredictability of depression.
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