Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

by JunkoKitanaka (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $36.56

  Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. This title explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, and how psychiatry has overcome the longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.