Depression in Japan

Kitanaka, Junko

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Author
Kitanaka, Junko
Publish Date
10/01/2011
Subtitle
Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
264
Publisher Name
PUPRESS
ISBN-10
069114205X
ISBN-13
9780691142050
citemno
135862
SKU
9780691142050

Description

Exploring how depression has become a national disease in Japan, this work shows how psychiatry has responded to the nation's ailing social order & how, in a remarkable transformation, the discipline has begun to overcome longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.