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Defeat Depression Campaign

Attitudes towards depression: some medical anthropological queries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sushrut Jadhav  and
Roland Littlewood
Sushrut Jadhav
Affiliation:
Centre for Medical Anthropology, University College London, WC1E 6BT
Roland Littlewood
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University College London, WC1E 6BT
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The vigorous public profile adopted by the College in the ‘Defeat Depression’ campaign (Psychiatric Bulletin, 1993, 17, 573–574) is to be welcomed, but the proposed educational programme is premature. The MORI poll is not an adequate basis for understanding how ‘depression’ is popularly conceived nor how people respond to it. The research report (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992) says little about the methods used in the qualitative part of the study: whether the researchers were properly trained in ethnographic field interviewing to elicit illness categorisations, and their ability to elicit the whole complex of ideas and actions, involving nomenclature, causation, agency, recognition and recourse to treatment.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 9 , September 1994 , pp. 572 - 573
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