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On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
S. Nassir Ghaemi
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Description for On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
Hardback. He has seen great achievements arise from great suffering and feels that understanding depression can provide important insights into happiness. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: MMH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling sadness. On Depression asks readers to consider the benefits of despair and the foibles of an unexamined life. Too often depression as disease is mistreated or not treated at all. Ghaemi warns against the "pretenders" who confuse our understanding of depression-both those who deny disease and those who use psychiatric diagnosis "pragmatically" or unscientifically. ... Read more
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling sadness. On Depression asks readers to consider the benefits of despair and the foibles of an unexamined life. Too often depression as disease is mistreated or not treated at all. Ghaemi warns against the "pretenders" who confuse our understanding of depression-both those who deny disease and those who use psychiatric diagnosis "pragmatically" or unscientifically. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421409337
SKU
V9781421409337
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About S. Nassir Ghaemi
Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and the director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. He is author of the bestseller A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness, as well as The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling ... Read more
Reviews for On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
An informed, challenging, and readable approach to a vital subject. Despair is in the title, but readers will rejoice in the reading. Library Journal Ghaemi is a lucid and eminently reasonable writer. Zocalo Public Square [ On Depression] belongs in libraries serving graduate students of psychiatry, psychology, and, perhaps, philosophy.
Melissa Nasea Watermark Clearly written, with mercifully short chapters ... Read more
Melissa Nasea Watermark Clearly written, with mercifully short chapters ... Read more