Empire of depression. Global history of destructive disease. Sadovsky D.

Depression captured the world.

Even 150 years ago, the word “depression” described only a pessimistic mood. However, in the middle of the twentieth century, when European empires collapsed, new Western clinical models and methods of treatment of mental health spread around the world. Today, the diagnosis of “depression” is made by every 25th resident of our planet.

revealing the continuity of human suffering throughout history, the psychiatrist Jonathan Sadovsky shows how different cultures described severe mental pain and how they tried to alleviate it.

A number of treatment methods, both ancient and modern, really reduces suffering, but the final cure is still unattainable. In this book, an attempt is made to collect all the most important information about depression and isolate key phenomena that will help you comprehend the scale of the epidemic and offer possible ways to win over it.