Sadness and Grief: Are We Medicalising Normal Human Emotions? Jerome Wakefield

Professor Jerome Wakefield is one of the foremost thinkers and authors on evolution and psychiatry in the world today, whose output is required reading for all psychiatrists but especially so for evolutionists.
Prof. Wakefield is Professor of Social Work, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Faculty in the Center for Bioethics in the School of Global Public Health at New York University. He is author of over 300 publications in the philosophy of psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, and is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books. His book (with A. Horwitz), The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (2007, Oxford), was named the best psychology book of 2007 by the Association of Professional and Scholarly Publishers.
His forthcoming book is: Foucault versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality