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

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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder - Horwitz, Allan V, and Wakefield, Jerome C
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The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder- 10% of all American adults are said to be afflicted with it, according to recent estimates- is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, as many claim, but to the way that normal human sadness has been pathologized since 1980. In that year, the field of psychiatry published its landmark third edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) , which has since become a dominant force behind our current ...

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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder 2012, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199921577

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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder 2007, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195313048

Hardcover