How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown by Edward Shorter

How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

Edward Shorter

256 pages • 2012

2 editions

nonfiction history psychology informative reflective slow-paced
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The book argues that psychiatry's love affair with the diagnosis of depression has become a death grip. Depression is a real illness, especially in its melancholic form. But most patients who get the diagnosis of "depression" are also anxious, fat...

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