Depression in Japan

Depression in Japan
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780691142050
ISBN-13 : 069114205X
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Book Synopsis Depression in Japan by : Junko Kitanaka

Download or read book Depression in Japan written by Junko Kitanaka and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how depression has become a national disease in Japan, this work shows how psychiatry has responded to the nation's ailing social order & how, in a remarkable transformation, the discipline has begun to overcome longstanding resistance to its intrusion in Japanese life.


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