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In ‘Wintering,’ Katherine May Encourages ‘The Active Acceptance Of Sadness’

Author: Editorial 10th March 2022 0 Comments

This book review comes from Heller McAlpin: “… British writer Katherine May offers some warming advice: Embrace your winter! By winter, she means not just the cold season, but ‘a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world,…
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Author: Editorial 5th March 2018 0 Comments

The authors of this book are Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. The publishers (Oxford University Press, 2007) say: “Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder…
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