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"In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling sadness. On Depression asks readers to consider the benefits of despair and the foibles of an unexamined life. Too often depression as disease is mistreated or not treated at all. Ghaemi warns against the "pretenders" who confuse our understanding of depression--both those who deny disease and…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2013Johns Hopkins University Press · 232 pages · 9781421409337
- Other · English · 2013Johns Hopkins University Press · 9781421409344
Depression, mentalAntidepressantsDiagnostic errorsExistentialismPsychologyAntidepressive AgentsDrug therapyDiagnosis