Beyond depression : a new approach to understanding and management /
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| Author / Creator: | Dowrick, Christopher, 1951- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xi, 225 : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5572137 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Points of departure
- Encounters
- This wan and heartless mood
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Mapping the journey
- 2. Depression as a medical condition
- Definitions
- DSM-IV
- ICD-10
- ICHPPC-2
- Natural history
- Prevalence
- Trajectory
- Impact
- Risk and resilience
- Medical management
- Detection
- Antidepressant medication
- St John's wort
- Psychosocial interventions
- Systematic approaches
- Conclusions
- 3. Disputed diagnoses
- The question of validity
- Border disputes
- Imperialism
- Integration
- Fundamentalism
- Comorbidity in primary care
- Back pain
- Heart disease
- Unexplained physical symptoms
- Social difficulties
- Biological bases?
- Family and twin studies
- Brain studies
- Biochemistry
- Gene identification
- The question of utility
- Detecting depression
- Antidepressants and placebos
- Training family doctors
- Disease management programmes
- 4. Drivers to diagnosis
- Depression as a commercial construct
- Depression as a professional construct
- The needs of psychiatrists
- The needs of general practitioners
- The needs of professional academics
- The needs of organisations
- An ethic of happiness
- Unwonted consequences
- 5. Broadening the mind
- Lost in translation?
- Etic and emic approaches
- 'Something bad is happening'
- Alienation and desire
- This vast panorama of futility
- 'The synne of accidie'
- The culture of ennui
- A view from the east
- 6. Conversation and meaning
- The coherent self
- Memory
- Desire, joy, and sorrow
- Curiosity and imagination
- The engaged self
- Webs of interlocution
- 'Vita activa'
- Encounters and hope
- The examined self
- The narrative self
- Leading a life
- Conversation and meaning
- Beyond depression
- 7. Encounters in primary care
- A role for doctors?
- Leavell's levels
- Enabling narratives
- Reconstruction
- Beyond determinism
- Into the future
- Limiting narratives
- Medical barriers
- Taking time
- Disabled narratives
- Research potential
- One more story
- Index
