Description:
Manufacturing Depression The Secret History of a Modern DiseaseAuthor: Gary Greenberg
ISBN-13: 9781416569794
ISBN-10: 1416569790
Publication Date: 2/2/2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
6.5 x 9.5 inches, 433 pages
am i happy enough? This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. Am I not happy enough because I am depressed? is a more recent version. In the past twenty years, as antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests -- upward of thirty million Americans are taking them at an annual cost of more than ten billion dollars -- more people have begun to ask themselves if their unhappiness is a disease that can, and should, be treated by medication.Part memoir, part intellectual history, part expose, Manufacturing Depression reveals how this question has come to dominate our understanding of our suffering. Author Gary Greenberg draws on sources ranging from the Old Testament to current medical journals and scholarship to his twenty-five years as a psychotherapist… Read More