Loss of sadness, the: how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Auteur :
Horwitz, Allan V. / Wakefield, Jerome C.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195313048
Date de publication :
21 juin 2007
Dimensions :
24,4 x 15,7 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
562 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Recognising that depression is a devastating illness that affects some people, this book argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, as many claim, but to the way that normal human sadness has been "pathologised" since 1980.