Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Listening to the Spirit of Depression: A Tale of Two Continents xiii
6. The Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness 3
7. A Sick Self
8. The Birth of the Psychic Self 21
9. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression 45
10. The Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology 70
11. The Twilight of Neurosis
12. The Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual 106
13. The Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood 136
14. The Inadequate Individual
15. The Depressive Breakdown 166
16. The Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality 190
17. The Weight of the Possible 230
18. Notes 235
19. Bibliography 297
20. Index 333