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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
