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All We Have to Fear is a groundbreaking look at how to distinguish between anxiety conditions that are mental disorders, those that are natural reactions to threats, and those that are natural products of evolution, but are mismatched with one's current social environments. Building on the new science of evolutionary psychology, Horwitz and Wakefield argue that true mental disorders stem from dysfunctions of naturally selected psychological me...

The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the landmark third edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), which has since become a dominant force behind our current understanding of mental illness. The result o...

Framed within an evolutionary account of human health and disease, The Loss of Sadness presents a fascinating dissection of depression as both a normal and disordered human emotion and a sweeping critique of current psychiatric diagnostic practices. The result is a potent challenge to the diagnostic revolution that began almost thirty years ago in psychiatry and a provocative analysis of one of the most significant mental health issues today.

È ancora possibile oggi vivere un periodo di tristezza provocata da un grave lutto o da una pesante delusione amorosa senza ritrovarsi immediatamente inquadrati in una diagnosi di depressione, con conseguente intervento di uno specialista e di una terapia farmacologica? La normale tristezza può dunque rimanere distinta dalla depressione? Il drastico cambiamento diagnostico degli ultimi decenni, che sembrava dover fornire alla psichiatria crite...