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David A. Karp - Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition - 9780190260965 - V9780190260965
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Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition

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Description for Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition Paperback. Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an "illness career." Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; JKSM; JKSN2; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 335 x 2. Weight in Grams: 490.
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. 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's interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with extraordinary and debilitating pain. We hear what depression feels like, what it means to receive an "official" clinical diagnosis, and what depressed persons think of the battalion of mental health experts--doctors, nurses, social workers, sociologists, psychologists, and therapists--employed to help them. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
489g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190260965
SKU
V9780190260965
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About David A. Karp
David A. Karp, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Boston College where he taught for 42 years. He has written or co-authored ten books and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters. His work appears in such periodicals as Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Qualitative Health Research, the Gerontologist, and the International Journal of ... Read more

Reviews for Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition
This sociological consideration of illness and disease in contemporary America comes from a professor (Boston Coll.) who uses his own suffering, treatment, and theory along with reports of 50 others who volunteered to talk with him about their major depressive episodes. Karp writes well, addressing psychological, chemical, and cultural perspectives, with much credit to C. Wright Mills, Erving Goffman, and ... Read more

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