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The Age of Melancholy

Paperback • 2014 • English

The Age of Melancholy

By Dan G. Blazer

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About the book

Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapi...Show more

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9780415762458

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Age of Melancholy

Format

Paperback

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