Sadness or Depression?

“This edited collection from 13 different contributors provides a multidisciplinary, multicultural, and ‘encompassing perspective’ on sadness and depression. … They deepen our understanding of depression by providing thoughtful explanations within the framework of ideas such as resilience, personality types, biological predisposition, and neurochemistry. … the book is quite accessible and discerning, and I appreciated the editors’ desire to inform the debate by respecting contrasting opinions.” (Cameron J. Risma, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2016)

• 1. Introduction: Depression, One or Many (Jerome Wakefield and Steeves Demazeux).- 2. The Current status of the diagnosis of depression (David Goldberg).- 3. The Continuum of Depressive States In The Population And The Differential Diagnosis Between “Normal” Sadness And Clinical Depression (Mario Maj).- 4. Beyond depression: personal equation from the guilty to the capable individual (Alain Ehrenberg).- 5. Depression as a problem of labor: Japanese debates about work, stress, and a new therapeutic ethos (Junko Kitanaka).- 6. Darwinian Blues: Evolutionary Psychiatry and Depression (Luc Faucher).- 7. Is an Anatomy of Melancholia possible? Brain processes, depression, and mood regulation (Denis Forest).- 8. Loss, bereavement, mourning, and melancholia: a conceptual sketch, in defence of some psychoanalytic views (Pierre-Henri Castel).- 9. Suffering, meaning and hope: shifting the focus from depression in primary care (Christopher Dowrick).- 10. An insider view on the making of the first French national information campaign about depression (Xavier Briffault).- 11. Extrapolation from animal model of depressive disorders: what’s lost in translation? (Maël Lemoine).- 12. Epilogue: Psychiatry’s Continuing Expansion of Depressive Disorder (Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz).- Index.