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Old Black Cloud : A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publishermassey University Press

ISBN-101991016727

ISBN-139781991016720

eBay Product ID (ePID)24068267772

Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

Publication NameOld Black Cloud : a Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPeople with Disabilities, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, General, History, Australia & New Zealand

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

AuthorJacqueline Leckie

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Health & Fitness, Social Science, Medical, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-554714

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'Old Black Cloudis authoritative, erudite and highly readable. It should be mandatory reading for all those interested in the social and cultural dimensions of depression and mental health in Aotearoa New Zealand.' -- Solomon Lewis, North & South

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal616.852700993

Table Of ContentIntroduction 7 1. Discourse and diagnosis 19 2. Rawakiwaki 49 3. The lonely land 76 4. Enduring darkness 109 5. Living with, and denying, the dark cloud 135 6. Depression, ethnicity and culture 160 7. 'Quacks', shocks, docs and drugs 186 Epilogue 224 Notes 238 Bibliography 277 Psychiatric hospitals in Aotearoa New Zealand 299 Glossary 300 Image credits 303 Acknowledgements 304 About the author 305 Index 306

SynopsisMental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden under a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwi ideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped. Using historic patient records as a starting place, and informed by her own experience of depression, academic Jacqueline Leckie's timely social history of depression in Aotearoa analyses its medical, cultural and social contexts through an historical lens. From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities, this engrossing book interrogates how depression was medicalised and has been treated, and how New Zealanders have lived with it.

LC Classification NumberRC537.L433 2024