The Age of Melancholy
Major Depression and Its Social Origins
Our rough guess is there are 66,000 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 4 hours and 24 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 9 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Word Count
66,000 words, Guess
Page Count
264 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7497565M
- ISBN-139780415951883
- ISBN-100415951887
- OCLC Control Number183879870
- OCLC Control Number58457133
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005006824
- Goodreads422147
- LibraryThing3690494
Classifications
- LCCRC537.B527 2005
Description
"In The Age of Melancholy, noted psychiatrist and author Dan Blazer ponders why - if our biological makeup has not fundamentally changed in the last half-century - we are suddenly depressed on an epidemic scale? He does not have to look far to find answers in the breakneck pace of 21st century life, in our societal pressures, in our intrusive work spaces, and in our disjointed relationships. And yet, despite many seemingly obvious links between our environment and our mental health, contemporary psychiatry is dependent on biomedical treatments for patients who are viewed as solitary individuals, each with independent factors causing depression. The increasing emphasis on the biological sciences and simultaneous loss of interest in related social sciences have put up blinders and impeded progress toward our understanding and treatment of major depression." "In this wide-ranging treatise, Dan Blazer calls for a revival of social psychiatry, which, complementing and completing medical and clinical research, could provide powerful insights into the causes, prevention, and treatment of depression."--BOOK JACKET.
Similar Books
The anatomy of melancholy
by Richard Burton ; edited by the Rev. A.R. Shilleto, M.A. ; with an introduction by A.H. Bullen.
The Interpersonal, Cognitive, and Social Nature of Depression
Jessica S. Brown, Thomas E. Joiner
The anatomy of melancholy: what it is with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics & several cures of it
In three partitions with their several sections members & subsections philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up by Democritus Junior [Robert Burton] with a satirical preface conducing to the following discourse
Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
William Styron.
Reasons to stay alive
Matt Haig
The anatomy of melancholy: what it is : with all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, & severall cures of it : in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections : philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up
by Democritus Iunior ; with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse
Prozac nation: young and depressed in America
Elizabeth Wurtzel.
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!