Depression

“An escalating use of medical resources needs legitimization, and in the field of psychiatry this has come from the opportune discovery of both antidepressants and depression. Depression has been the cornerstone on which the neuroses, carved out and shaped for construction purposes, have been laid in successive layers. . . . Where the field has attempted a disinterested rationality, the results have been confounding rather than illuminative. At present the area is such that it almost seems we have to let whatever dynamics govern the field take us to extremes and back in the hope that successive traverses of the scanner will eventually reveal the shape of what lies beneath the surface” (Healy, 252).