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    Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
    Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
    Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
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    Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

    Written by Gary Greenberg

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

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    "Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured-not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.

    In the twenty years since their introduction, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests. Upwards of 30 million Americans are taking them at an annual cost of more than $10 billion. Even more important, Greenberg argues, it has become common, if not mandatory, to think of our unhappiness as a disease that can-and should-be treated by medication. Manufacturing Depression tells the story of how we got to this peculiar point in our history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 5, 2010
    ISBN9781400185443
    Author

    Gary Greenberg

    Gary Greenberg is the author of the national bestseller The Pop-Up Book of Phobias, as well as The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares. He is also a nationally touring stand-up comedian, and has appeared on Comedy Central, Bravo, NPR, and USA Network, among others.

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    • 5/5
      Not only enlightening and educational but funny as hell!!!
    • 3/5
      I no longer know who is fooling who anymore. It's charlatans all around. Probably doesn't help that the author is writing with his mind made up from the start that only paying psychoanalysts like him a lot of money will cure you of depression which on one page is and on another isn't a disease.