The weariness of the self : diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age / Alain Ehrenberg.
"How and why has depression become the dominant personal unhappiness of our time? Alain Ehrenberg presents a history of depression's growth throughout the twentieth century, revealing the ways in which social, cultural, and scientific factors from Freud to Prozac have radically changed how...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2010]
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| Summary: | "How and why has depression become the dominant personal unhappiness of our time? Alain Ehrenberg presents a history of depression's growth throughout the twentieth century, revealing the ways in which social, cultural, and scientific factors from Freud to Prozac have radically changed how we think about mental illness."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxx, 345 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0773536256 9780773536258 |