Depression and Globalization

The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century

Carl Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

203 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2489-6 (ISBN)

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Depression and Globalisation is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalisation and depression. In this text Dr. Walker reestablishes the link between mental health research and treatment, along with the political and economical influences outside the world of academic and clinical mental health. Overall, this book will accomplish the task of how closely and inextricably linked these diverse fields are and the way they operate together to produce not only a cultural representation of mental illness but influence the extent and type of mental distress in the 21st century.

Dr. Carl Walker is a post-doctoral fellow based in the department of Mental Health Sciences at the University College-London. Dr. Walker currently manages a European-wide, EC-funded four year research project involving the identifcation risk factors for future episodes of depression for use in a General Practice context. In addition, Dr. Walker reviews papers for Psychology and Health and books for the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.

Depression.- What Is Depression?.- The Stigma of Depression: History and Context.- Globalization.- The New Right and the 1980s.- Globalization: Definitions and Debates.- Mental Health.- The Structures of Society and Depression.- The Mental Health Sciences and the Depression Industry.- Depression and the Future.

Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 203 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	1-4419-2489-2 / 1441924892
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-2489-6 / 9781441924896
Zustand	Neuware