How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown Edward Shorter, a distinguished professor of psychiatry and the history of medicine argues for a return to the old fashioned concept of nervous illness. Dr. Don and Dr. Shorter discuss the gradual evolution of DSM-3 which groups various nervous disorders into the catch-all term “depression”, which applies to virtually everything, “a jumble of non-disease entities, created by political infighting within psychiatry, by competitive struggles in the pharmaceutical industry, and by the whimsy of the regulators.
Depression is a real and very serious illness, he argues; it should not be diagnosed so promiscuously, and certainly not without regard to the rest of the body. Melancholia, he writes, “the quintessence of the nervous breakdown, reaches deep into the endocrine system, which governs the thyroid and adrenal glands among other organs.”
In a learned yet provocative challenge to psychiatry, Shorter argues that the continuing misuse of “depression” represents nothing less than “the failure of the scientific imagination.”
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