Seeing Depression Through A Cultural Lens

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.

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