Editors:
- Comprehensive overview of the controversial issue of whether sadness is being relabeled as depression by psychiatry
- Contains perspectives from philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history of science, pharmacology and clinical practice
- Studies depressions from various approaches, such as: evolutionary psychology approach, the cognitive neurosciences approach and psychoanalysis approach
Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL, volume 15)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This edited collection from 13 different contributors provides a multidisciplinary, multicultural, and ‘encompassing perspective’ on sadness and depression. … They deepen our understanding of depression by providing thoughtful explanations within the framework of ideas such as resilience, personality types, biological predisposition, and neurochemistry. … the book is quite accessible and discerning, and I appreciated the editors’ desire to inform the debate by respecting contrasting opinions.” (Cameron J. Risma, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
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Silver School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, USA
Jerome C. Wakefield
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Department of Philosophy, SPH Laboratory, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac, France
Steeves Demazeux
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sadness or Depression?
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives on the Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning
Editors: Jerome C. Wakefield, Steeves Demazeux
Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7423-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7421-5Published: 30 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1345-8Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7423-9Published: 21 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-1948
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 208
Topics: Philosophy of Biology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry