Jerome C. Wakefield is Professor of Social Work and Professor of Psychiatry at New York University and author (with Allan V. Horwitz) of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder.
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Jerome C. Wakefield
Commentaries by Jerome C. Wakefield
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The Right to Massacre?
NEW YORK – The shootings of United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others in Arizona last month are but the latest in a series o…
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Psychiatry’s Conceptual Malpractice
NEW YORK – The American Psychiatric Association’s recent proposed changes to its official diagnostic manual – the Diagnostic and Statistical…
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Is Sadness a Disease?
NEW YORK – Sadness is one of the small number of human emotions that have been recognized in all societies and in all time periods. Some of …
