March 2012
5 posts
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I wish i retain all the information i have ever learned. I’m no different from many other people who have wide and diverse interests, although I don’t understand how people can so easily involve themselves into their own activities that anything they learn seamlessly fuses with their knowledge. I have read so many things about a hundred different topics but they all just fade away....
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Can Depression be Good... →
psychotherapy:
via Psychology Today:
“Let us begin by thinking very broadly about the concept of depression. There are important geographical variations in the prevalence of depression, and these can in large part be accounted for by socio-cultural rather than biological factors. In traditional societies human distress is more likely to be seen as an indicator of the need to address important...
“…Lawlor’s history of the journey from Aristotle and Galen on melancholia, to...”
– Jenny Diski, in her recent Guardian review of Clark Lawlor’s new book, From Melancholia to Prozac: a history of depression (via psychotherapy) 