Category Archives: Psychiatry

Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience

Here are some highlights from this 2013 book by sociologist Liah Greenfeld: * finding oneself bombarded by contradictory cultural messages and overwhelmed with choices is an exceedingly and increasingly common modern experience. It is, therefore, not surprising that the period … Continue reading

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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of medicine: * During the last half of the century, Charles Darwin’s new evolutionary theory exerted a towering influence over the scientific zeitgeist, including psychiatry.6 Darwin … Continue reading

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Is depression just a chemical imbalance?

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

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

Here are some highlights from this 2007 book: * The book you are about to read is a brilliant tour de force of scholarship and analysis from two of our leading thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis and the nature of mental … Continue reading

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