Seeing Depression Through A Cultural Lens
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 May 2025
- ISBN 9780190850074
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages848 pages
- Size 239x164x47 mm
- Weight 1270 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Depression is a leading cause of suffering and disability worldwide, and suicide is a leading cause of death in younger people and a remarkably common cause of mortality in older people. Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a neuropsychiatrist and a tricultural humanities scholar, explores broadly and deeply how cultural identity and its structural correlates relate to the occurrence, phenomenology, and narratives of depression. The book synthesizes qualitative and quantitative perspectives, theory and practice, salient statistics, and memorable stories from literature, film, and the clinic. It offers readers valuable new perspectives on depression in diverse individuals and populations.
MoreLong description:
Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the effects of cultural identity on the epidemiology, phenomenology, and narratives of depression, the bipolar spectrum, and suicide. Culture is associated with emotional communication style, 'idioms of distress,' the conception of depression and of bipolar disorders, and how people with mood disorders might be stigmatized. It is linked to structural factors--environmental, social, and economic circumstances--that create or mitigate the risk of depression, sometimes precipitate episodes of illness, and facilitate or impede treatment. Culture shapes depressed people's willingness to disclose or acknowledge their condition and to seek care, their relationships with clinicians, and their acceptance or rejection of specific treatments. Cultural context is essential to understanding suicide. It underlies people's motives for suicide, factors that promote or prevent suicide, the social acceptability of death by suicide, and availability of lethal means of self-harm.
Cultural identity is always intersectional, comprising elements related to race and ethnicity; gender; age, generation, and life stage; education; social class; occupation; migrant or minority status; region of residence; and religious belief and practice. This book explores the implications of each of these dimensions using salient concepts from the social sciences, memorable narratives from literature, film, and the clinic, and quantitative findings from epidemiology and psychometrics. It offers readers a framework for culturally aware assessment and management of depression, bipolarity, and suicidal risk in diverse individuals and populations.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part One: Constructing the Cultural Lens
Chapter 1: Picturing Depression: Faces, Backgrounds and Foregrounds
Chapter 2: Faces of Clinical Depression
Chapter 3: Beyond Shades of Gray: Depression and the Bipolar Spectrum
Chapter 4: Dimensions and Implications of Cultural Identity
Chapter 5: Cultural Identity and Personal Biography
Chapter 6: Unnatural Deaths
Chapter 7: Depression and Social Class: A Four-Dimensional View
Chapter 8: Cultural Correlates and Clinical Consequences
Chapter 9: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science: Depression in Traditional Medicine
Part Two: Depression and the Cultures of Places
Chapter 10: China: Confucian Harmony and Dissonance
Chapter 11: Japan: Invisible Double-Edged Swords
Chapter 12: South Korea: Han and Passionate Intensity
Chapter 13: Depression in the "World's Happiest Countries"
Chapter 14: American Regional Cultures and the Geography of Mood
Part Three: Depression and the Cultures of Occupations
Chapter 15: The Dark Side of Creative Talent
Chapter 16: Physicians in Pain: Depression in the Medical Profession
Chapter 17: Flying High, Feeling Low: The Mental Health of Airline Pilots
Chapter 18: Truck Driving Blues
Afterword
Acknowledgments
