depression

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/21/2023
  

  Does Sen. Fetterman's Depression Disclosure Signal Change in Mental Health Acceptance?

  by Jonathan Sadowsky

  51 years ago the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, was dropped from the ticket when it was revealed he had received treatment for depression. A historian of mental health says it's too simple to declare progress without acknowledging ongoing stigma. 

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  10-6-18
  

  Churchill's 'black dog' is a myth and he never suffered depression, says historian

  Andrew Roberts says the phrase “black dog” had a different meaning at the beginning of the 20th century and did not refer to mental health.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-8-16
  

  Report: Economists have documented for the first time the decline of the American Dream

  Using a big data set of millions of tax returns they show how the chance that you’ll make more money than your parents has dramatically declined since 1940.

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• How Depression Went Mainstream: Interview with Dr. Edward Shorter

  by Robin Lindley

  Psychiatrists are very interested in the historical perspectives because they can see the obvious power that an understanding of history brings to appreciating the current situation. Historians haven’t been so interested. Psychiatrists are centered on diagnosis and treatment, and those are the two aspects that are central to the practice of medicine.

• SOURCE: NYT
  1-14-13
  

  Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Psychologist Who Studied Depression in Women, Dies at 53

  Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, a psychologist and writer whose work helped explain why women are twice as prone to depression as men and why such low moods can be so hard to shake, died on Jan. 2 in New Haven. She was 53.Her death followed heart surgery to correct a congenitally weak valve, said her husband, Richard Nolen-Hoeksema.Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema, a professor at Yale University, began studying depression in the 1980s, a time of great excitement in psychiatry and psychology. New drugs like Prozac were entering the market; novel talking therapies were proving effective, too, particularly cognitive behavior therapy, in which people learn to defuse upsetting thoughts by questioning their basis.