Alain Ehrenberg

Weariness of the Self

Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

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Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7735-7870-8
EAN: 9780773578708
Produktnummer: 35548782
Verlag: Mqup
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 345 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Alain Ehrenberg is a sociologist, the director of CESAMES (Research Center on Mental Health, Psychotropics and Society, Paris Descartes University), senior researcher at CNRS, and the author of several books on contemporary individualism.