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Edward Shorter

How Everyone Became Depressed

The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

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About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. There is a term for what they have, writes Edward Shorter, and it's a good old-fashioned term that has gone out of use. They have nerves.In How Everyone Became Depressed, Edward Shorter, a distinguished professor of psychiatry and the history of medicine argues for a return to the old fashioned concept of nervous illness. These are, he writes, diseases of the entire… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-994809-3
  • EAN: 9780199948093
  • Produktnummer: 14481347
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'137 KB

Über den Autor


Edward Shorter is an internationally-recognized historian of psychiatry and the author of numerous books, including A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (1997) and Before Prozac (2009). Shorter is the Jason A. Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

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