The Quest for Mental Health : A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Essential Histories
ISBN-10
052186867X
ISBN-13
9780521868679
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 19th, 2011
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 1.90 cms
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The incidence of mental and emotional illness continues to rise; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows, the quest for happiness continues. Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as the cultures of consumerism and therapism continue to hold sway over the hearts and minds of people around the world.
"This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unprecedentedly high. Drawing on years of field research, Ian Dowbiggin argues that if the quest for emotional well-being has reached a crisis point in the twenty-first century, it is because mass society is enveloped by cultures of therapism and consumerism, which increasingly advocate bureaucratic and managerial approaches to health and welfare"--
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