The Empire of Depression: A New History by Jonathan Sadowsky HARDBACK

The Empire of Depression: A New History\nby Jonathan Sadowsky\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jonathan Sadowsky\nTitle: The Empire of Depression: A New History\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Psychology\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781509531646\nISBN-10: 1509531645\nRRP: \u00A325.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nDepression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, \""depression\"" referred to a mood, not a sickness. \nDoes that mean people weren't sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth century, even as European empires were crumbl.