Depression in Japan : : Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress / / Junko Kitanaka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kitanaka, Junko,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 halftones. 1 line illus.

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One. Introduction: Local Forces of Medicalization
• Part One. Depression in History
• Introduction
• Chapter Two. Reading Emotions in the Body: The Premodern Language of Depression
• Chapter Three. The Expansion of Psychiatry into Everyday Life
• Chapter Four. Pathology of Overwork or Personality Weakness?: The Rise of Neurasthenia in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan
• Chapter Five. Socializing the "Biological" in Depression: Japanese Psychiatric Debates about Typus Melancholicus
• Part Two. Depression in Clinical Practice
• Introduction
• Chapter Six. Containing Reflexivity: The Interdiction against Psychotherapy for Depression
• Chapter Seven. Diagnosing Suicides of Resolve
• Chapter Eight. The Gendering of Depression and the Selective Recognition of Pain
• Part Three. Depression in Society
• Introduction
• Chapter Nine. Advancing a Social Cause through Psychiatry: The Case of Overwork Suicide
• Chapter Ten. The Emergent Psychiatric Science of Work: Rethinking the Biological and the Social
• Chapter Eleven. The Future of Depression: Beyond Psychopharmaceuticals
• References
• Index