La fatica di essere se stessi. Depressione e società

It appears that we live in the midst of an epidemic of an illness that we call Depression. Looking back to my training as a psychiatrist in the early 1970s, the diagnosis of Depression was usually limited to states that were so disabling that a person could not work, was at risk of suicide, often n

Ehrenberg has the French disease of writing obscurely enough that it is fatiguing to read, particularly on the Subway going to work. I will probably enjoy it more on re-reading. Generally some great ideas about the way Neurosis and Anxiety lost to Depression in the last quarter century. I suggest be Leggi tutto

Ehrenberg attributes the rise of the diagnosis of depression to a shift in governance practices after World War II, and a transition from politically imposed restrictions on personal freedom to the social urge for personal initiative and the cult of individual entrepreneurialism. He calls depression Leggi tutto

Smart and ambitious, but filled with highly speculative claims.

Πολιτικό βιβλίο, που προσπαθεί να πάρει ίσες αποστάσεις από την νοσταλγία του παρελθόντος και την αισιοδοξία του μέλλοντος. Μέσα από την ιστορία της κατάθλιψης αναδίδει νέες κοινωνικές μορφές, δράσεις και λειτουργικότητα του υποκείμενου. Περνώντας από το 1800 και το δίπολο τρέλα -παραλήρημα στο 1900 Leggi tutto

Ça demeure un livre de sociologie, donc ce n'est pas un roman. Par contre, j'ai vraiment apprécié pouvoir mieux comprendre l'évolution de la maladie de la dépression.

Worth read on depression. It has given me new insights into depression. I found it interesting that there are social and cultural reasons behind it and not pathological as generally understood. In his conclusion he writes: "Worth read on depression. It has given me new insights into depression. I fo Leggi tutto