Abstract
According to WHO, depression has recently become the biggest contributor to the global health burden, a trend that has led some people to refer to the current era as “the age of Prozac”. But discussions of depression are riddled with questions: are our experiences of depression shaped by our culture? Do the causes of depression lie in the chemistry of the brain or in the patient's life experience and social conditions—or both? Considering these questions from a historical and cross-cultural perspective might shed light on them, and help us to understand how social and economic conditions have shaped contemporary ideas about the causes and nature of depression.
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