This important academic text is the first book dedicated to the
political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between
globalization and depression. In this text Dr. Walker reestablishes the
link between mental health research and treatment, along with the
political and economical influences outside the world of academic and
clinical mental health. Overall, this book will accomplish the task of
how closely and inextricably linked these diverse fields are and the way
they operate together to produce not only a cultural representation of
mental illness but influence the extent and type of mental distress in
the 21st century.