Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities - Paperback

by Bradley Lewis (Author)

In Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities, Bradley Lewis examines the various biomedical and socio-cultural ways in which depression has been categorized, described, and experienced across history and across cultures.

Author Biography

Bradley Lewis is Associate Professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with affiliated appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Division of Medical Humanities. He has dual training in humanities and psychiatry, and he writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, cultural studies, and disability studies. Lewis is the author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry and Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice.