Speaking of sadness : depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness

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Label

Speaking of sadness : depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness

Title remainder

depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness

Statement of responsibility

David A. Karp

Creator

• Karp, David Allen, 1944-

Author

• Karp, David Allen, 1944-

Subject

• Depressed persons -- Interviews
• Depression, Mental
• Depression, Mental -- Social aspects
• Depressive Disorder -- psychology
• MEDICAL -- Neuroscience
• MEDICAL -- Psychiatry | Child & Adolescent
• Antidepressive Agents
• MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Child & Adolescent
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology
• PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology
• Self Concept
• Self-perception -- Case studies
• Social Stigma
• MEDICAL / Neuroscience
• Depressed persons

Language

eng

Summary

• " Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. 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. Ranging in age from their early twenties to their mid-sixties, the people Karp profiles reflect on their working lives, career aspirations, and intimate relationships, and confide strategies for overcoming paralyzing episodes of hopelessness. Throughout, Karp probes the myriad ways society contributes to widespread alienation and emotional exhaustion. In a new and extensive introduction since the original publication of Speaking of Sadness twenty years ago, Karp evaluates the state of and social movements for the depression experience. He traces his personal depression journey along with the reception of his readers since the book's original publication. In addition, he offers a clear perspective on the consequences of wholesale "medicalization" permeating cultural treatment of depression, and calls towards a movement to listen to and to voice the experiences of the marginalized. Speaking of Sadness remains distinctive in its dedication to recounting stories and discovering clear patterns in them. Karp pierces through the terrifying isolation of depression to uncover the connections linking the depressed as they undertake their personal journeys through this very private hell. This book will bring new understanding to professionals seeking to see the world as their clients do, and provide vivid insights and renewed empathy to anyone who cares for someone living with the cruel unpredictability of depression. "--
• "Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an "illness career." The new edition of the book is highlighted by a thoroughly new and extensive introduction"--

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

616.85/27

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC537

LC item number

.K367 2017

Literary form

non fiction

NLM call number

• 2016 J-154
• WM 171.5