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Author(s): Dan G. Blazer
ISBN(s): 9780415951883, 0415951887
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.09 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415951887
ISBN 13: 9780415951883
Author: Dan G Blazer

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.

The Age of Melancholy Major Depression and Its Social Origins 1st Table of contents:

I The Diagnosis of Depression
1 Introduction

  • The Medicalization of Depression

  • The Advance of Major Depression and the Retreat of Social Psychiatry

  • Methodological Individualism and Its Limitations

  • How Medicalization Affects the Research of Depression

  • Beyond the Medical

  • Organization of the Argument

2 The Birth and Growth of Major Depression

  • Major Depression and the Medical Model

  • Problems with the Medical Model of Depression

  • The Origin and Hegemony of Major Depression

  • Major Depression, an Operational Diagnosis

  • Major Depression Becomes a Medical Disease

  • The Impact of a Reified Major Depression on the Depressed

3 The Evolution of Depression as a Diagnosis

  • Melancholia

  • An Interlude: Religious Melancholy

  • Manic-Depressive Insanity

  • Depression as a Reaction

  • Endogenous and Reactive Depression

  • Reactive Depression, Major Depression, and the Role of Medications

  • The Reaction to the Disappearance of Reactive Depression

II Social Psychiatry
4 The Birth and Growth of Social Psychiatry

  • The Origins of Social Psychiatry

  • The Rise of Social Psychiatry

  • Social Psychiatry and Social Activism

  • The Community Mental Health Movement

5 The Retreat of Social Psychiatry

  • Evidence for the Retreat of Social Psychiatry

  • Social Psychiatry and Cultural Psychiatry

  • Why Did Social Psychiatry Retreat?

  • The National Institute of Mental Health and Social Psychiatry

  • The Decline of the Community Mental Health Movement

  • Critiques of Social Psychiatry and the Antipsychiatry Movement

III The Frequency of Depression and a Lesson from War and Society
6 Interpreting the Burden of Depression

  • The Social Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders During the 1960s

  • The Stirling County Study

  • The Midtown Manhattan Study

  • Categorical Versus Dimensional Assessment in Psychiatric Epidemiology

  • The New Psychiatric Epidemiology

  • The Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study

  • The National Comorbidity Survey

  • Is the Frequency of Depression Higher Today than in the Past?

  • Who Benefits from the New Psychiatric Epidemiology and Major Depression Writ Large?

7 A Lesson from War Syndromes

  • The Civil War: A Prelude

  • World War I

  • World War II

  • The Korean War

  • The Vietnam War

  • The Persian Gulf War

  • Lessons from War Syndromes

  • The Attribution of Symptoms

8 Things Fall Apart: Society and Depression in the 21st Century

  • Psychiatrists, Patients, and Society

  • The Birth and Growth of the Modern

  • A Thoroughly Modern Psychiatry

  • The Challenge to Modernity

  • The Challenge to Modern Psychiatry

  • The Emergence of the Postmodern Critique

  • The Postmodern Critique and Depression

IV The Revival of Social Psychiatry
9 A Call for Basic Social Science Research in Psychiatry

  • Social Epidemiology

  • Depression in the Workplace

  • Social Ecology and Depression

10 Emotion: A Link between Body and Society

  • Emotion, a Link between Body and Society

  • Social Zeitgebers

  • Allostatic Load

11 The Problem with Soma

  • Brave New World

  • What Was the Problem with Soma?

  • What is the Problem with Psychiatry Today?

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