Intense marketing of antidepressants over recent decades has resulted in a dramatic rise in
their use, and in the widespread social acceptance of the idea that depression is caused by …

According to the literary and cultural movement known as postmodernism—which flourished
in the years after World War II—there are no ultimate truths or “objective” accounts of reality …

Setting Totagadde is a multicaste village with a population of approximately 800 in the
plateau region of Karnataka State, South India. Approximately 25% of this population is …

This article examines the rhetorical productivity of ambiguity in the context of a loosely-
defined mood disorder formally known as dysthymia, referred to colloquially as mild …

Drugs are substances, that is, material realities with specific, describable chemical
characteristics. Therefore, it is unsurprising that the scientific literature about drugs is …

BACKGROUND Diagnostic and treatment delay in depression are due to physician and
patient factors. Patients vary in awareness of their depressive symptoms and ability to bring …

Purpose–There is a paucity of research that examines how diagnostic decisions are made
by psychiatrists. Moreover, previous work in the area tends to be grounded in labeling …

This article explores the idea that narrative is the primary vehicle through which
antidepressant consumers negotiate their sense of identity and reality. Antidepressant …

By PETER D. KRAMER hortly after the publication of my book''Listening to Prozac,''12 years
ago, I became immersed in depression. Not my own. I was contented enough in the slog …

This dissertation in Theory of Practical Knowledge contends that depression is a disorder of
the self. Using the existential-phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I argue that if we …