Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny…
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny…
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Buria…
In this collection of writings, the author argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. He traces these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carre, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.--From back cover.
Collected essays on popular culture by a major critic.
In this collection of writings, the author argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. He traces these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carre, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.--From back cover.
Byung-Chul Han, una de las voces filosóficas más innovadoreas que ha surgido en Alemania recientemente, afirma en este inesprado best-seller que la sociedad occidental está sufriendo un silencioso cambio de paradigma: el exceso de positividad está conduciendo a una sociedad del …
Byung-Chul Han, una de las voces filosóficas más innovadoras que ha surgido en Alemania recientemente, afirma en este inesperado best seller que la sociedad occidental está sufriendo un silencioso cambio de paradigma: el exceso de positividad está conduciendo a una sociedad del …
Public health perspectives on depressive orders
Public health perspectives on depressive orders
Public health perspectives on depressive disorders
"In 2001, the WHO recognized depressive disorders as the leading cause of disability worldwide. But most Americans who meet diagnostic criteria for major depression are untreated or undertreated. Luckily, recent advances have finally made it possible for the field of public heal…
How and why did depression become an epidemic disease? Based on a conceptual history of melancholy and depression, Konstantin Ingenkamp develops his own perspective, which is well-founded in cultural science. It is directed against the increasing pathologizing as well as against…
Asks why the incidence of depression has been on such an increase, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly. To find answers, the author looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental upheavals, and other external, group factors that have undergone significant chan…
