Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age
ISBN: 9780773577152
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Depression Mental -- Social aspects; Depression Mental -- History; Social psychology;

A history of depression that describes the illness across social history and within psychiatry.

Ehrenberg Alain :

Alain Ehrenberg is a sociologist, the director of CESAMES (Research Center on Mental Health, Psychotropics and Society, Paris Descartes University), senior researcher at CNRS, and the author of several books on contemporary individualism.Alain Ehrenberg is research director emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris.


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