On depression : drugs, diagnosis, and despair in the modern world / Nassir Ghaemi.

Author/creator Ghaemi, S. Nassir
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2013.
Description215 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Drugs, diagnosis, and despair in the modern world
Contents Lives of quiet desperation -- The varieties of depressive experience -- Abnormal happiness -- The age of Prozac -- The unknown Hippocrates -- Postmodernism debunked -- Pharmageddon? -- Creating major depressive disorder -- The DSM wars -- Viktor Frankl : learning to suffer -- Rollo May and Elvin Semrad : I am, we are -- Leston havens : holding opposed ideas at once -- Paul Roazen : being honest about the past -- Karl Jaspers : keeping faith -- The banality of normality -- Two o'clock in the morning.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index.
LCCN 2012036893
ISBN9781421409337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN142140933X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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