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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b8193772.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-232) and index.".
- catalog description "Living with depression -- The dialectics of depression -- Illness and identity -- The meanings of medication -- Coping and adapting -- Family and friends -- Sickness, self and society -- Postscript : Sociology, spirituality and suffering -- Appendix : Thinking about sampling.".
- catalog extent "vii, 240 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195094867 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "1996 B-730".
- catalog subject "616.85/27/0092 20".
- catalog subject "Depressed persons Interviews.".
- catalog subject "Depressed persons.".
- catalog subject "Depression, Mental Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Depression, Mental.".
- catalog subject "Depression.".
- catalog subject "RC537 .K367 1995".
- catalog subject "RC537 .K367 1996".
- catalog subject "Self Concept.".
- catalog subject "Self-perception Case studies.".
- catalog subject "WM 171 K185s 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Living with depression -- The dialectics of depression -- Illness and identity -- The meanings of medication -- Coping and adapting -- Family and friends -- Sickness, self and society -- Postscript : Sociology, spirituality and suffering -- Appendix : Thinking about sampling.".
- catalog title "Speaking of sadness : depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness / David A. Karp.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".