Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

"Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured-not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.



In the twenty years since their introduction, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests. Upwards of 30 million Amer...