Jerome Wakefield

The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Author: Editorial 5th March 2018 0 Comments

The authors of this book are Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. The publishers (Oxford University Press, 2007) say: “Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder…
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Allan Horwitz, books, depression, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), Jerome Wakefield, psychiatry, sadness

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