How everyone became depressed the rise and fall of the nervous breakdown
"In this provocative book, Edward Shorter describes how in the 19th century patients with anxiety, fatigue and unable to sleep and obsess about the whole thing were considered "nervous," and when they lost control it was a "nervous breakdown." Then psychiatry turned its back on the whole concept of...
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Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Nerves as a problem
- The rise of nervous illness
- Fatigue
- Anxiety
- A different kind of nervous breakdown-- melancholia
- The nervous breakdown
- Paradigm shift
- Something wrong with the label
- Drugs
- The return of the two depressions (and an anxious postscript)
- Nerves redux
- Context.
