Watters sees depression as a product of culture, and he worries that the West's thinking about mental illness is clisplacing other cultures' ways of responding to emotional distress. Bue some in che West might argue that depression is an objective fact, traceable to the patient's biochemistry. Where might Oliver Sacks come down in this controversy? Would he agree that in a case like depression, biology is everything? Or might he argue that culture plays a role? Would he share Watters's alann at the attempt to change the way tbe Japanese people think about mental illness? Or would he applaud the drug companies?
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