The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
by Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield
The Loss of Sadness investigates how psychiatry has interpreted sadness and depression. Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield examine the boundary between normal sorrow and depressive disorder, offering a thoughtful analysis of diagnosis, classification, and changing ideas about emotional suffering.
About This Book
The Loss of Sadness examines the relationship between ordinary sorrow and depressive disorder.
Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield explore how psychiatry has transformed understandings of sadness and mental illness.
The book considers the boundaries between normal emotional suffering and clinical diagnosis.
It offers a focused discussion of depression, psychiatric classification, and the changing interpretation of human distress.
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