The weariness of the self : diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age /
Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depres...
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Allan Young
- Introduction. Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness
- pt. 1. Sick Self
- 1. Birth of the Psychic Self
- 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression
- 3. Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology
- pt. 2. Twilight of Neurosis
- 4. Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual
- 5. Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood
- pt. 3. Inadequate Individual
- 6. Depressive Breakdown
- 7. Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality
- Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible.
