Recovery culture: The promotion of depression and consumption of mental health technologies in contemporary social practices

This project asks why depression has become the most popular mental illness in the nineties, mapping particular contemporary state, industrial and cultural policies that define and regulate subjects with depressed mood. The project is a critical exploration that seeks to reveal the conditions making...

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Main Author: Gardner, Paula M
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2001
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3012131