Speaking of sadness : depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness / David A. Karp.
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, Karp...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Living with depression
- The dialectics of depression
- Illness and identity
- The meanings of medication
- Coping and adapting
- Family and friends
- Sickness, self and society
- Postscript : Sociology, spirituality and suffering
- Appendix : Thinking about sampling.