The goal is understanding mood, psychiatry’s main point.

Evidence

Psychiatry refers to these syndromes as “mood disorders.” Does the fact that these disorders are chemically treatable make them pathologies in the same way as are neuroses? Understanding mood is psychiatry’s main point. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 268

Categorization

• QUESTION: The chemical treatability question recurs right through to Prozac — this whole chapter is a question I need to track into the 1970s-80s material.
• XREF: connects to: Mood is two-dimensional, driven by distinct enthusiasm and anxiety systems in the brain. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1664

Broader Connections

• Mood is two-dimensional, driven by distinct enthusiasm and anxiety systems in the brain. #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1664