Title:
Men's discourses of depression
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Publication Information:
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Physical Description:
viii, 209 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780230507524
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Summary
Summary
An original and timely study of men's experiences of depression in which the author tackles the discursively constructed relationship between the self and depression showing its linguistic and social complexity and analyses the relationship between depression and masculinity.
Author Notes
Dariusz Galasi'ski is Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland. His books include Language of Deception, Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis (co-author), Men and the Language of Emotions, The Language of Belonging (co-author) and Men's Discourses of Depression.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| 1 Men, Depression and Discourse Analysis | p. 1 |
| 2 Discourses of Depression | p. 23 |
| 3 The Experience of Autonomy (of Depression) | p. 44 |
| 4 At Arm's Length. The Not-So-Depressed Self | p. 58 |
| 5 Life Illness. Depression and the Accounts of Everyday Life | p. 75 |
| 6 Normal Biographies. Depression and the Life Story | p. 90 |
| 7 The Timeless Self. The Inevitability of Depression | p. 106 |
| 8 Lesser Men. Depression and the Model of Masculinity | p. 121 |
| 9 Men's Imperatives. Men, Depression and Work | p. 136 |
| 10 Rejections. Men, Depression and the Family | p. 151 |
| 11 Insight and Suffering: A Linguist's View of Psychopathology | p. 169 |
| Notes | p. 181 |
| References | p. 182 |
| Index | p. 209 |
