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The Cultural Origins Western Depression

Sushrut Jadhav

University College London, Gower Street, London WCIE 6BT, UK

Focusing on the British cultural vocabulary of guilt, fatigue, energy, stress and depression; this paper argues that such vocabularies have their own unique histories and meanings; deeply embedded, in this instance, within "white British and western European" institutions. Predicated on a western epistemology, these constructs developed in response to prevailing concerns at different periods in western history; but are now assumed to be universal natural entities that await further scientific research and investigation. The cross-cultural validity of depression as a universal disorder is therefore dubious and needs an extensive re-examination.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 42, No. 4, 269-286 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409604200403
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