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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder [Repost]
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Prof. Horwitz
English | 1 Jun. 2007 | ISBN: 0195313046 | 304 Pages | PDF | 3.34 MB
English | 1 Jun. 2007 | ISBN: 0195313046 | 304 Pages | PDF | 3.34 MB
The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the landmark third edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), which has since become a dominant force behind our current understanding of mental illness overall.