| The Age of Melancholy Lib/E: Major Depression and Its Social Origin Contributor(s): Dixon, Walter (Read by), Blazer, Dan G. (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798200595297 Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation OUR PRICE: $25.18 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Depression - Self-help | Mood Disorders - Depression - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. Major Depression is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly? To find answers, Dr. Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental upheavals, and other external, group factors that have undergone significant change. In so doing, the author revives the tenets of social psychiatry, the process of looking at social trends, environmental factors, and correlations among groups in efforts to understand psychiatric disorders. |