Manufacturing depression the secret history of a modern disease

Greenberg shows how the idea that depression is a widespread chronic disease has been packaged by brilliant scientists, doctors, and marketing experts -- and why it is has become wildly successful in the marketplace of ideas. He then asks what we gain and lose by taking this approach, and who benefi...

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Main Author: Greenberg, Gary, 1957 June 9-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Edition:1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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505 0 |a Mollusks -- Job versus his therapists -- Mauve measles -- The dangers of empathy -- Making depression safe for democracy -- What your mum and dad will do to you -- The shock doctors -- The acid and the ecstasy -- Getting high and making money -- Double blind -- Diagnosing for dollars -- Mad men on drugs -- Embracing the model: cognitive therapy -- The new phrenologists -- The magnificence of normal. 
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