How Everyone Became Depressed

• The book makes a major practical contribution to the debate about DSM5, drawing upon history in order to determine which diagnoses have rock-solid credibility and which appear more fads and fancies.
• The author is intimately familiar with sources in the history of psychiatry in four major languages and has an unequalled knowledge of the great river of psychiatry's past.
• The book will continue to be relevant in the ongoing debate about DSM5 for years and decades to come.

Readership: Psychiatrists, health care professionals, those interested in the history of medicine and psychiatry, and students of medicine.

Edward Shorter, PhD, Professor History of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Edward Shorter is an internationally-recognized historian of psychiatry and the author of numerous books, including A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (1997) and Before Prozac (2009). Shorter is the Jason A. Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Nerves as a Problem
Chapter 3 Rise of Nervous Illness
Chapter 4 Fatigue
Chapter 5 Anxiety
Chapter 6 Melancholia
Chapter 7 Nervous Breakdown
Chapter 8 Paradigm Shift
Chapter 9 Something Wrong With the Label
Chapter 10 Drugs
Chapter 11 Return of the Two Depressions
Chapter 12 Nerves Redux
Chapter 13 Context