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" The weariness of the self : "
Alain Ehrenberg.
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BL
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634041
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| Uniform Title
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Fatigue d'être soi.English
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Ehrenberg, Alain.
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The weariness of the self : : diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age /\ Alain Ehrenberg.
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xxx, 345 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780773536258 (bound)
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: 0773536256
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / Allan Young -- Introduction. Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness -- Pt. 1. Sick Self -- 1. Birth of the Psychic Self -- 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression -- 3. Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology -- Pt. 2. Twilight of Neurosis -- 4. Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual -- 5. Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood -- Pt. 3. Inadequate Individual -- 6. Depressive Breakdown -- 7. Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality -- Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible.
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"How and why has depression become the dominant personal unhappiness of our time? Alain Ehrenberg presents a history of depression's growth throughout the twentieth century, revealing the ways in which social, cultural, and scientific factors from Freud to Prozac have radically changed how we think about mental illness."--BOOK JACKET.
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Depression, Mental-- Social aspects.
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Depression, Mental-- History.
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Social psychology.
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Depression-- history.
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History, 20th Century.
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History, 21st Century.
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Psychology, Social-- history.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.85/27
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RC537.E3413 2010
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2010 C-479
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WM 11.1E33f 2010a
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