Jerome C Wakefield: 2 books
All We Have to Fear
Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic? In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that...
The Loss of Sadness
How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by...