Empire of Depression
Empire of Depression When is sorrow sickness? Jonathan's book explores the various medical treatments for depression, classed as a modern illness with definite (but changing) symptoms from the 20th…
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Empire of Depression
When is sorrow sickness? 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. 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.
He asks, what have we lost as a consequence of the hegemony of the 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.
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