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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Edward Shorter (PhD, Professor History of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, PhD, Professor History of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.564kg ISBN: 9780199948086ISBN 10: 0199948089 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 14 March 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Nerves as a Problem Chapter 3 Rise of Nervous Illness Chapter 4 Fatigue Chapter 5 Anxiety Chapter 6 Melancholia Chapter 7 Nervous Breakdown Chapter 8 Paradigm Shift Chapter 9 Something Wrong With the Label Chapter 10 Drugs Chapter 11 Return of the Two Depressions Chapter 12 Nerves Redux Chapter 13 ContextReviews<br> Why are you being told you have depression or anxiety and why are you being given antidepressants or anxiolytics, when in fact you've had a nervous breakdown? The answer lies in the fact that managing nervous breakdowns is a more complex clinical task than just simply giving a pill. There is more than just a simple change of words here, these are words that matter. In eliminating the nervous breakdown, psychiatry has come close to having its own nervous breakdown. -- David Healy, MD, FRCPsych, Author of Pharmageddon, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cardiff, Wales <br><p><br> In this new survey of nerves Shorter recounts the shifting meanings and fashions over the ages concerning breakdowns, crackups, depression, anxiety, stress - what average person's thought ailed them and what the professionals thought. Labels come and go. Classifications come and go. Clear understanding waxes and wanes. Diagnostic boundaries come and go. Treatments come and go. Hard won insights are lost and rediscovered. Shorter brings it all alive with graphic historical and contemporary material. With his polyglot command of the European literature, there is no one better for the task. Through it all, Shorter keeps his focus firmly on the issues that matter to patients. This is a tale for everyone, not just the academics. -- Bernard Carroll, MBBS, PhD, FRCPsych, Pacific Behavioral Research Foundation <br><p><br> Nerves stand at the core of common mental illness, no matter how much we try to forget them. As 'nerves' have jumped from one organ to another, from the hyopochondrium to the stomach, from the heart to the chest, and from the chest to the spleen before finally finishing up in neurowhimsical tangles in the brain, every performance has been applauded and enthused by physicians of all kinds in wild abandon. Science has taken a back seat. It can't be as bad as all that, you may argue, we have made real advances in the last few years. Sorry folks, we ain't, and if you want t Author InformationEdward Shorter is an internationally-recognized historian of psychiatry and the author of numerous books, including A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (1997) and Before Prozac (2009). Shorter is the Jason A. Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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