Empire of Depression
When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have…
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When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have tried to treat something which lies on the border between the natural and the pathological. Jonathan's book explores the various medical treatments for depression, classed as a modern illness with definite (but changing) symptoms from the 20th century onwards, in relation to a longer history of treatments for 'melancholia' and related states considered either as biological or social sicknesses or as a natural part of some people's constitution. He also compares the western history of medicalising depression with the experiences of both sadness and clinical depression in non-western cultures, such as Nigeria and Japan. He asks, what have we lost as a consequence of the hegemony of the
Empire of Pain
Embers of Empire
Blood of Empire
Ghosts of Empire
EMPIRE OF LIES
EMPIRE OF PAIN
Empire of Silence
Orphans of Empire
Empire of Storms
Empire of Night
Fugitive of Empire
Rise of Empire
Empire of Desire
Vows of Empire