Health & Medicine
Why isn’t treatment for depression leading to lower prevalence?
A philosopher of the emotions on the roots of passion and how it may explain certain modern psychiatric conditions
Published 12 August 2016
On this Up Close podcast, we speak to philosopher of the emotions Professor Louis Charland, who argues we need to reinstate the notion of “passion” in our understanding of human behaviour.
Health & Medicine
Why isn’t treatment for depression leading to lower prevalence?
Now little mentioned outside of the arts and self-help domains, passion has deep historical roots and may have important contemporary use as a lens through which to view certain psychiatric conditions.
“One feature about passions is that they are progressive and feed on themselves, and almost like an avalanche can sometimes collapse on themselves in destruction,” says Professor Charland.
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