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Article: The great depression: is an epidemic of depressive disorder really sweeping America?(The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder)(Book review)
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- December 1, 2007
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder, by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield, New York: Oxford University Press, 287 pages, $29.95
IS TONY SOPRANO really depressed?
That is one of many questions sure to hound readers of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder, a tightly reasoned, paradigm-shaking new book. Written by Allan Horwitz, a specialist in the sociological aspects of mental health at Rutgers University, and Jerome Wakefield, a professor in the School of Social Work at New York University, The Loss of Sadness could alter the official definition of ...