Durà-Vilà, G;
Littlewood, R;
Leavey, G;
(2013)
Depression and the medicalization of sadness: conceptualization and recommended help-seeking.
Int J Soc Psychiatry
, 59
(2)
165 - 175.
10.1177/0020764011430037.
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Abstract
Critiques of the validity of the DSM diagnostic criteria for depressive disorder argue that it fails to differentiate between abnormal sadness due to internal dysfunction or depression (sadness without an identifiable cause), and normal sadness (sadness with a clear cause).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Depression and the medicalization of sadness: conceptualization and recommended help-seeking |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0020764011430037 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020764011430037 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| Keywords: | Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Aged, Classification, Culture, Depressive Disorder, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Female, Grief, Humans, Male, Medicalization, Middle Aged, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Psychological Techniques, Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Reproducibility of Results, Socioeconomic Factors, Terminology as Topic |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469518 |
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