The Resource Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress, Junko Kitanaka
Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress, Junko Kitanaka
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- Summary
- 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 and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and sociolegal perspectives, Depression in Japan explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, how psychiatry has responded to the nation's ailing social order, and how, in a remarkable transformation, psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life. Questioning claims made by Japanese psychiatrists that depression hardly existed in premodern Japan, Junko Kitanaka shows that Japanese medicine did indeed have a language for talking about depression which was conceived of as an illness where psychological suffering was intimately connected to physiological and social distress. The author looks at how Japanese psychiatrists now use the discourse of depression to persuade patients that they are victims of biological and social forces beyond their control; analyzes how this language has been adopted in legal discourse surrounding "overwork suicide"; and considers how, in contrast to the West, this language curiously emphasizes the suffering of men rather than women. Examining patients' narratives, Kitanaka demonstrates how psychiatry constructs a gendering of depression, one that is closely tied to local politics and questions of legitimate social suffering
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction : local forces of medicalization
- Reading emotions in the body : the premodern language of depression
- The expansion of psychiatry into everyday life
- Pathology of overwork or personality weakness? : the rise of neurasthenia in early-twentieth-century Japan
- Socializing the "biological" in depression : Japanese psychiatric debates about typus melancholicus
- Containing reflexivity : the interdiction against psychotherapy for depression
- Diagnosing suicides of resolve
- The gendering of depression and the selective recognition of pain
- Advancing a social cause through psychiatry : the case of overwork suicide
- The emergent psychiatric science of work : rethinking the biological and the social
- The future of depression : beyond psychopharmaceuticals
- Isbn
- 9781400840380
- Label
- Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress
- Title
- Depression in Japan
- Title remainder
- psychiatric cures for a society in distress
- Statement of responsibility
- Junko Kitanaka
- Subject
-
- Depression, Mental -- Treatment -- Japan
- Depressive Disorder -- psychology
- Depressive Disorder -- therapy
- Electronic books
- Japan
- Japan
- Medicine
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology | Depression
- Patient Acceptance of Health Care
- Depression, Mental -- Treatment
- Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy -- Japan
- SELF-HELP -- Depression
- SELF-HELP -- Mood Disorders
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Suicide -- psychology
- Workload -- psychology
- Psychiatry -- trends
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and sociolegal perspectives, Depression in Japan explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, how psychiatry has responded to the nation's ailing social order, and how, in a remarkable transformation, psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life. Questioning claims made by Japanese psychiatrists that depression hardly existed in premodern Japan, Junko Kitanaka shows that Japanese medicine did indeed have a language for talking about depression which was conceived of as an illness where psychological suffering was intimately connected to physiological and social distress. The author looks at how Japanese psychiatrists now use the discourse of depression to persuade patients that they are victims of biological and social forces beyond their control; analyzes how this language has been adopted in legal discourse surrounding "overwork suicide"; and considers how, in contrast to the West, this language curiously emphasizes the suffering of men rather than women. Examining patients' narratives, Kitanaka demonstrates how psychiatry constructs a gendering of depression, one that is closely tied to local politics and questions of legitimate social suffering
- Cataloging source
- CDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kitanaka, Junko
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Depression, Mental
- Psychotherapy
- PSYCHOLOGY
- SELF-HELP
- SELF-HELP
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Depression, Mental
- Psychotherapy
- Japan
- Psychotherapy
- Medicine
- Depressive Disorder
- Patient Acceptance of Health Care
- Depression, Mental
- Depressive Disorder
- Japan
- Patient Acceptance of Health Care
- Depressive Disorder
- Psychiatry
- Suicide
- Workload
- Japan
- Label
- Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress, Junko Kitanaka
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Introduction : local forces of medicalization -- Reading emotions in the body : the premodern language of depression -- The expansion of psychiatry into everyday life -- Pathology of overwork or personality weakness? : the rise of neurasthenia in early-twentieth-century Japan -- Socializing the "biological" in depression : Japanese psychiatric debates about typus melancholicus -- Containing reflexivity : the interdiction against psychotherapy for depression -- Diagnosing suicides of resolve -- The gendering of depression and the selective recognition of pain -- Advancing a social cause through psychiatry : the case of overwork suicide -- The emergent psychiatric science of work : rethinking the biological and the social -- The future of depression : beyond psychopharmaceuticals
- Control code
- ocn759151927
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400840380
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9786613227478
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 322747
- 22573/cttsnsk
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759151927
- Label
- Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress, Junko Kitanaka
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : local forces of medicalization -- Reading emotions in the body : the premodern language of depression -- The expansion of psychiatry into everyday life -- Pathology of overwork or personality weakness? : the rise of neurasthenia in early-twentieth-century Japan -- Socializing the "biological" in depression : Japanese psychiatric debates about typus melancholicus -- Containing reflexivity : the interdiction against psychotherapy for depression -- Diagnosing suicides of resolve -- The gendering of depression and the selective recognition of pain -- Advancing a social cause through psychiatry : the case of overwork suicide -- The emergent psychiatric science of work : rethinking the biological and the social -- The future of depression : beyond psychopharmaceuticals
- Control code
- ocn759151927
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400840380
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9786613227478
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 322747
- 22573/cttsnsk
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759151927
Subject
- Depression, Mental -- Treatment -- Japan
- Depressive Disorder -- psychology
- Depressive Disorder -- therapy
- Electronic books
- Japan
- Japan
- Medicine
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology | Depression
- Patient Acceptance of Health Care
- Depression, Mental -- Treatment
- Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy -- Japan
- SELF-HELP -- Depression
- SELF-HELP -- Mood Disorders
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Suicide -- psychology
- Workload -- psychology
- Psychiatry -- trends
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