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How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
By Shorter, Edward
- ISBN
- 9780199948086
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Starred Review on February 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
In this harsh but constructive critique of American psychiatry, Shorter (history, Univ. of Toronto; History of Psychiatry; Before Prozac) addresses the blanket term "nervous disorders," which can include fatigue, anxiety, melancholia, and nervous breakdown. The term depression, he explains, misleads both laypeople and doctors because anxiety and depression usually coexist. Their separation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
