Beyond depression : a new approach to understanding and management / Christopher Dowrick
- Author
- Dowrick, Christopher, 1951-
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Contents
- Points of departure -- Depression as a medical condition -- Disputed diagnoses -- Drivers to diagnosis -- Broadening the mind -- Coherence and engagement -- Encounters in primary care.
- Summary
- "In this second edition of Beyond Depression, Christopher Dowrick - an academic general practitioner - takes a critical insider's look at commonly held views about the diagnosis and management of depression. He argues that our belief in depression as a medical condition is based on commercial, professional, organizational, and cultural factors that combine to sustain the popularity of depression as a concept, which is based more on our values than on science." "Based on the best contemporary evidence available, this second edition includes new research findings on the management of mild and recurrent depression, the possibility of a genetic basis to depression, extended arguments on the limitations of screening, and the placebo effects of antidepressant medication. The author considers alternative ways of understanding the thoughts and feelings that we currently describe as depression, drawing on cross-cultural, religious, political, and literary sources. He proposes a conceptual framework that provides a means of moving beyond depression as a medical concept and as a personal problem." --Book Jacket.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780199545292
0199545294
9783013916001
3013916001 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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