Seeing Depression Through A Cultural Lens

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Barry S. Fogel (Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School) Xiaoling Jiang (independent scholar and writer, independent scholar and writer, Boston)

Seeing Depression Through A Cultural Lens

Barry S. Fogel (Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School), Xiaoling Jiang (independent scholar and writer, independent scholar and writer, Boston)

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Oxford University Press Inc
13 August 2024

Anthropology; Psychology; Personal & public health; Psychiatry; Human biology

Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the effects of cultural identity on the epidemiology, phenomenology, and narratives of depression, the bipolar spectrum, and suicide. Culture is associated with emotional communication style, 'idioms of distress,' the conception of depression and of bipolar disorders, and how people with mood disorders might be stigmatized. It is linked to structural factors--environmental, social, and economic circumstances--that create or mitigate the risk of depression, sometimes precipitate episodes of illness, and facilitate or impede treatment. Culture shapes depressed people's willingness to disclose or acknowledge their condition and to seek care, their relationships with clinicians, and their acceptance or rejection of specific treatments. Cultural context is essential to understanding suicide. It underlies people's motives for suicide, factors that promote or prevent suicide, the social acceptability of death by suicide, and availability of lethal means of self-harm.

Cultural identity is always intersectional, comprising elements related to race and ethnicity; gender; age, generation, and life stage; education; social class; occupation; migrant or minority status; region of residence; and religious belief and practice. This book explores the implications of each of these dimensions using salient concepts from the social sciences, memorable narratives from literature, film, and the clinic, and quantitative findings from epidemiology and psychometrics. It offers readers a framework for culturally aware assessment and management of depression, bipolarity, and suicidal risk in diverse individuals and populations.

By: Barry S. Fogel (Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School), Xiaoling Jiang (independent scholar and writer, independent scholar and writer, Boston)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 3g
ISBN: 9780190850074
ISBN 10: 0190850078
Pages: 848
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

"Preface Part One: Constructing the Cultural Lens Chapter 1: Picturing Depression: Faces, Backgrounds and Foregrounds Chapter 2: Faces of Clinical Depression Chapter 3: Beyond Shades of Gray: Depression and the Bipolar Spectrum Chapter 4: Dimensions and Implications of Cultural Identity Chapter 5: Cultural Identity and Personal Biography Chapter 6: Unnatural Deaths Chapter 7: Depression and Social Class: A Four-Dimensional View Chapter 8: Cultural Correlates and Clinical Consequences Chapter 9: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science: Depression in Traditional Medicine Part Two: Depression and the Cultures of Places Chapter 10: China: Confucian Harmony and Dissonance Chapter 11: Japan: Invisible Double-Edged Swords Chapter 12: South Korea: Han and Passionate Intensity Chapter 13: Depression in the ""World's Happiest Countries"" Chapter 14: American Regional Cultures and the Geography of Mood Part Three: Depression and the Cultures of Occupations Chapter 15: The Dark Side of Creative Talent Chapter 16: Physicians in Pain: Depression in the Medical Profession Chapter 17: Flying High, Feeling Low: The Mental Health of Airline Pilots Chapter 18: Truck Driving Blues Afterword Acknowledgments"

Barry S. Fogel is an academic psychiatrist and neurologist, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Brain/Mind Medicine. He has devoted his career to the study and improvement of care at the interface of psychiatry, neurology, and general medicine. His current academic focus is relating transpersonal identity to the presentation, outcomes, and optimal treatment of patients with psychiatric, neurological, and general medical comorbidity. Xiaoling Jiang is a scholar of comparative literature and culture. She received her higher education in China, Japan, and the United States. She served on the faculties of Kobe University and Harvard University, and was on the editorial board of Culture Studies, China's leading journal of comparative culture. Her current academic focus is the mental health of Asian college students in English-speaking countries and its relationship to issues of cultural identity and cultural conflict.