Book Review The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder By Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. 287 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.…

By Paul R. McHugh. 2007

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Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “However, major depression, divorced from a proportionate external trigger, is unlikely to be adaptive and, therefore, requires a different set of explanations (Horwitz & Wakefield, 2007).”
Climate change and mental health: a causal pathways framework (2010, background): “Although it is important not to pathologise normal psychological reactions to adversity and disaster (Horwitz and Wakefield 2007), we do need to consider the mental health implications of climate change This paper belongs to the special issue ‘‘Climate changes health’’.”
Why is sad music pleasurable? A possible role for prolactin (2011, background): “Several researchers have argued that ordinary (non-depressive) sadness is a normal healthy emotion that should not be regarded as pathological (e.g., Horwitz & Wakefield, 2007; Wilson, 2008).”
Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice (2009, background): “The role of the pharmaceutical industry and its influence on the research process, as well as on public perception of new treatment possibilities, cannot be overestimated (Healy, 2004; Horwitz and Wakefield, 2007; Lacasse and Leo, 2005).”
From emotional and psychological well-being to character education: challenging policy discourses of behavioural science and ‘vulnerability’ (2012, background): “…turned previously rare syndromes and disorders into common ones and categorised behaviours once seen as antisocial, disruptive or merely commonplace as mental disorders: in this way, for example, post-bereavement grief and shyness have been medicalised (e.g. Horwitz and Wakefield 2007; Lau op. cit.”
Breaking up Romantic Relationships: Costs Experienced and Coping Strategies Deployed (2008, background): “-178(Prediction 8) which may allow them to identify why the relationship that failed (Horwitz and Wakefield, 2007).”
Depression as a disease of modernity: explanations for increasing prevalence (2012, background): “misclassification of normal responses of sadness as a mental disorder (Horwitz and Wakefield, 2007).”
Weighing the Costs of Disaster (2010, background): “Another limitation is that diagnostic markers are conceptual constructs whose prevalence can be influenced by social and cultural factors (Horwitz & Wakefield, 2007; McNally, 2003).”
Association of torture and other potentially traumatic events with mental health outcomes among populations exposed to mass conflict and displacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2009, background): “There is an ongoing debate as to whether measures of common psychological reaction patterns such as depressive symptoms measure disorder or distress.(14,57) Although many other mental health variables are salient,(54) our review focused only on depression and PTSD, because these are the outcome indi”
Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology (2016, background): “Especially powerful cases for such a lowering of diagnostic thresholds have been made by Horwitz and Wakefield (2007, 2012) in their historical studies of depression and anxiety disorders. They argued that recent ways of diagnosing these conditions systematically misdiagnose normal affective respons”