The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder

by Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz

Book Overview

Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for depression in clinics and schools, and a push to diagnose depression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195313046
• ISBN13: 9780195313048
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"