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"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals."
- Trevanian from the novel 'Shibumi'
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| | Speaking of Sadness:
Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness
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| | by David A. Karp
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ZIN Product Number: 10035970
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 240 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195113861
Release Date: Jan 11, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
"This sociological consideration of illness and disease in contemporary America comes from a professor who uses his own suffering, treatment, and theory along with reports of 50 others who volunteered to talk with him about their major depressive episodes." (Libr J) Index.
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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, and wise, Karp's interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with extraordinary and debilitating pain. We hear what depression feels like, what it means to receive an "official" clinical diagnosis, and what depressed persons think of the battalion of mental health experts - doctors, nurses, social workers, sociologists, psychologists, and therapists - employed to help them. We learn the personal significance that patients attach to beginning a prescribed daily drug regimen, and their ongoing struggle to make sense of biochemical explanations and metaphors of depression as a disease. Ranging in age from their early twenties to their mid-sixties, the people Karp profiles reflect on their working lives and career aspirations, and confide strategies for overcoming paralyzing episodes of hopelessness. They reveal how depression affects their intimate relationships, and, in a separate chapter, spouses, children, parents, and friends provide their own often overlooked point of view. Throughout, Karp probes the myriad ways society contributes to widespread alienation and emotional exhaustion.
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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 50 depressed men and women. This important book pierces through the terrifying isolation of depression to uncover the connections linking the depressed as they undertake their personal journeys.
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Sociology, Psychology, Psychopathology - General, Psychiatry - General, Medical
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