The Loss of Sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder

The Loss of Sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Allan V. Horwitz (Auteur), Jerome C. Wakefield (Auteur)

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...one of the most important books in the field of psychiatry published in the last few years...a brilliant book with a significance well beyond its narrow but important subject. (Spectator )

This wonderful book will alter professional thinking. (Nursing Standards )

...an interesting and thought-provoking book that underscores the need to examine more fully each patient's psychological illness and the factors contributing to it...[a good book for] anyone interested in understanding depression more fully and the place normal sadness has in our society. (Doody's Notes )

...[this book] could alter the official definition of depression, change the way we get mood-enhancing drugs, and clarify how effectively our culture delivers well-being. (Reason Magazine )

Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield's important book... is part of a gathering blowback against the pathologisation and medicalisation of the ordinary human condition of sadness after loss... what they do accomplish in critiquing psychiatric diagnosis of depression is important enough to make much of this book required reading for depression researchers and clinicians. (The Lancet )

...a work of deep scholarship... (Hugh Freeman, Times Literary Supplement )